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SAHÂBAH
ATTITUDE TOWARDS INNOVATIONS
An outstanding
characteristic of the Sahâbah is their absolute Adherence to the Sunnah
of the Prophet, Muhammad 
and their
absolute disapproval of BID'AH (Innovation) Some Sahâbah narrated the following
Ahaadeeth
Amr ibn salmah said: We used to sit in front of
Abdullah Ibn Masoud's house before the Fajr prayer, so that when he came
out we would go with
him to the Masjid. {one day} Abu Moosa al-Ash'aaree came and asked us: 'Did Abu
Abdur Rahmaan (i.e. Ibn Masoud) leave yet? ' We answered: 'No.'
So Abu Moosa al-Ash'aaree sat with us waiting for him. When he came
out, we all stood up. Abu Moosa told him: "Oh, Abu Abdur Rahmaan!
I recently saw something in the Masjid which I deemed to be evil, but
all praise is for Allah, I did see anything except good "
Ibn Masoud then asked: "then What was it?"
Abu Moosa said: "You will see it if you stay alive. In the Masjid,
I saw a group of people sitting in circles waiting for the Salââh. Each
circle is led by a person. And every person in these circles carries
small stones (pebbles).
The leader of a circle would say: "Say 'Allah-u Akbar' a hundred
times" so they would repeat Allah-u Akbar a hundred times; then he says
"Say 'Laa
ilaaha illallaah', a hundred times" so they
would say Laa ilaaha illallaah a
hundred times; then he would say: "Say
'Subhaanallah', a hundred
times", they
will say Subhana Allah a hundred times.
Then Ibn Masoud said: "What did you tell them?"
He said: 'I didn't say anything, I waited to hear your opinion."
Abdullah Ibn Masoud said: "Could you not order them to count their
evil deeds, and assured them of getting their rewards."
Then Abdullah Ibn Masoud went ahead and we accompanied him. As he
approached one of the circles, he said: "What is this that you are
doing?"
They said: "Oh! Abu Abdur Rahmaan, these are pebbles to count the
number of times we say Allah-u Akbar, La ilaaha Illallah, and Subhaanallah."
He said: "Count your evil deeds, and I assure you that you are not
going to lose anything of your rewards (Hasanat). Woe unto you, people
of Muhammad, how quickly you
go to destruction! Those are your Prophet's
companions available, these are his clothes not worn out yet, and his
pots are not broken yet. I swear by Whom my soul is in His Hands that
you are either following a religion that is better than the Prophet's
religion or you are opening a door of misguidance." They said:
"We swear by Allah Almighty, oh, Abu Abdur Rahmaan, that
we had no intention other than doing good deeds."
He said: "So what? How many people wanted to do good deeds but
never got to do them? The Prophet of Allah has told us about people who
recited the Qur'ân with no effect on them other than the Qur'ân passing through their throats. I swear by Allah, I am almost sure that
most of you are from that type of people." Then he left them.umar Ibn
Salamah (the sub narrator) said: "We saw most of the people of those circles
fighting against us with the Khawaarij in the battle of An-Nahrawan."
-- Related
by Ad-Daarimee and Abu Na'eim with an Authentic chain of narrations.
Authenticated by saleem al-hilaalee in al-BID'AH (pp. 26-29)
This
was the case with every innovation introduced in the UMMAH it began as
something small, bearing resemblance to the truth which is why those who
entered it were mislead and then were unable to leave it. so it grew and
became the religion which they followed and thus deviated from the
straight path and left Islam.
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