Recordings › Innovation in Islam? | Mufti Abu Layth alMaliki · 3 Mar 2015 › Segment 6 of 6
Should I avoid practices that people call good bid'ah?
salah salaah namaz prayer salaat namaaz as-salah al-salah salawat malik ibn anas malik bin anas imam maalik imam malik ibn anas imaam prayer leader maaliki malikite malikiyyah maliki school fatwah fatawa fatwaa fataawa legal opinion muftis hukm ahkam hukum hukam ahkaam makruh tahrimi makruh tanzihi disliked sunna sunnat sunan prophetic practice biddat bidaa innovation madinah al-madinah madeenah yathrib ahl al-sunnah ahl as-sunnah ahlus sunnah ahl al-sunna sunnis umma ummat community alhamdulillah alhamdulilah al-hamdu lillah alhumdulillah alhamdulillaah subhan allah subhaanallah subhanallaah as-salamu alaykum assalamu alaikum assalamualaikum salaam salaams salam alaykum wa alaykum as-salam peace greetingMufti Abu Layth's own view: safer to stick to the Sunnah, with respect for both opinions
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machinesummary, machine-writtenMufti Abu Layth holds it is safer to stick to the Sunnah as Medina understood it, but does not condemn those who follow good bid'ah, and asks for mutual respect.
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Giving his personal opinion, Mufti Abu Layth says it is always safer to stick with the Sunnah, the understanding of Medina in Imam Malik's time, which he personally adheres to. He says he does not condemn people outright for practices seen as good bid'ah if they find goodness in them, and respects that. He criticises those who try to hijack the matter by presenting the acceptance of good bid'ah as the only view in Sunni Islam, calling that highly inaccurate and a disservice to Imam Malik. He says those who cite al-Qarafi, Abu Bakr ibn al-Arabi or al-Izz ibn Abd al-Salam [?] on kinds of bid'ah should read their actual rulings, which place the disputed practices among the makruh, and closes by calling for mutual respect rather than silencing the other opinion.
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Mufti Abu Layth says his personal opinion is that it is always safer to stick with the Sunnah, the understanding in Medina at the time of Imam Malik.
“my personal opinion is that it is always safer to stick with the Sunnah and that was the understanding in Medina at the time of man Malik”
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always people who have disagreed but a lot more of the methods seem to be in agreement in accepting these actions so that is the the ruling what money responds to it is as simple as that look Badar the division of it there are two opinions right that no and yes the early school of Imam Malik did not accept it for several hundred years the latest Court did accept so these opinions both opinions exist within the Maliki mother
if if you're asking my personal opinion on the matter my personal opinion is that it is always safer to stick with the Sunnah and that was the understanding in Medina at the time of man Malik that is the understanding that I personally adhere to I don't agree in condemning people outright in the actions if somebody is doing or an action which is seen as a battle husana i mean al hamdulillah they feel it makes them it makes life easy for them if they feel that it is some goodness in it for them it's bringing them closer to allah and that is their belief then I'll have
the Lila we respect that we honor it as something which is an aid for our brothers and sisters in Islam as to it does not mean at the same time you have to you are not entitled to hold an opinion which was the opinion of Imam Malik and the early school of the Maliki and this unfortunately I must say is unfortunate that we have seen some people trying to almost hijack the opinion of let of that group saying yes
my daughter has not does exist they hi Jackie and to present the present as the only view in Sunni Islam and that is inaccurate highly inaccurate it's absolutely wrong it's a disservice to the great imam or to the great imams of our ummah like imam ali to contributed a significant portion of his life dedicated to this thing and a huge part of his his teachings focused on things like this way he speaks expensively on bida right throughout his fat hour so to say that nobody within sometimes we do
hear statements like nobody within Alison would deny these things that's not true Imam Malik who is the legend of this Ummah the Imam of the Hydra day and and many who come after him regardless on and sometimes people will say provide me discussions on this from the early Imams and so on you simply just have to read the rulings in the fatwa books so read what for example when you'll speak about called the yard of baka liberal RB don't be people shouldn't just read a sentence and take that out of context
read the actual rulings so when people say over call the yard or what critical RB or even have their bottom may have said when speaking about be the odd that all but it can be of kinds the question is what exactly are they talking about people say cut off he says this he says there are four five kinds and so and he does and so do the other all of Mercedes but then really what kinds because the matters of controversy here the matters that are being debated they actually include those kinds in the makrooh category because they then actually give the rulings on this and they say it's my
crew to do this so don't I'm just saying for people what I feel is unfair is to try to silence the voice of another opinion just because it goes contrary to your opinion look at the end of the day these both have existed right throughout our history throughout the legacy of al-islam the main thing is trying to move forward in in really cultivating mutual respect that is incredibly important
I mean she'll love me allah subhanaw taala give a stove week to practice that to teach it and to convey this this legacy of this theme to those who come after us no subhanallah wa ta'ala I'm nya seafood well below salat-u-salam ll parallel Nam known al madina - hey Rolla come in contact animal salam o aleikum wa rahmatullah wa barakato
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@misc{abulayth-2015-03-03-S06, author = {Mufti Abu Layth}, title = {{Should I avoid practices that people call good bid'ah?}}, year = {2015}, month = {3}, date = {2015-03-03}, howpublished = {\url{https://muftiabulayth.org/r/wirt3dxsvd8/s/6/}}, url = {https://muftiabulayth.org/r/wirt3dxsvd8/s/6/}, organization = {Mufti Abu Layth Archive}, urldate = {2026-11-01}, note = {Segment 2015-03-03-S06, auto-transcribed, may contain errors} }
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