بسم الله والحمد لله
والصلاة والسلام على رسول الله ، وبعد
• It is a sign of Imaan (Faith) that a person fights
against Bid`aat and that which corrupts the Deen.
• Do not be baffled by the large number of people doing
innovations in the Deen.
It is narrated on the
authority `Abdullaah Ibn Mas`ood that the Messenger of Allaah صلى الله عليه وسلم said:
۞ 1) ❝There
was never a Prophet sent before me by Allaah to his people but he had, among
his people, (his) disciples and companions, who followed his ways and obeyed
his command.
۞ 2) Then there came after them their
successors who said whatever they did not practice, and practiced whatever they
were not commanded to do.
۞ 3) He who strove against them with his hand
was a believer: he who strove against them with his tongue was a believer, and
he who strove against them with his heart was a believer and beyond that there
is no faith even to the extent of a mustard seed.❞
[Saheeh Muslim (81, 82)]
Shaikh Ibn al-`Uthaymeen رحنه الله commented:
Some of the benefits from
this Hadeeth are as follows:
1) Every Prophet which was sent to his people, before the
Messenger of Allaah صلى الله عليه وسلم, had from his people who were his disciples and companions, who
would follow the Sunnah of that Prophet and implement his command.
2) And every time the era
of Prophethood (the Prophet and his disciples) passed away, Bid`ah (religious
innovations) emerged, and sins increased, as the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم said: ❝Then there came after them their
successors who said whatever they did not practice, and practiced whatever they
were not commanded to do.❞
3) It is a sign of faith
that a person strives against these Bid`aat and corruption with his hands or
his tongue or his heart.
4) And from this Hadeeth we also learn that Imaan
increases and decreases, till it reaches the size of a mustard seed. A mustard
seed is really small and it is used as an example to describe the smallness of
a thing.
[Sharh Saheeh Muslim
(1/164-165)]
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