[1] The danger of deliberately sheltering ahlul bidah, including the haddadiyyah

بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم

In The Name of Allah, The Most Merciful, the Bestower of mercy.

“Allah has cursed the one who shelters a Muhdith”.

Al-Allamah Salih Al-Fawzan, may Allah preserve him, stated:

The word Muhdith pronounced with a kasrah under the Daal means a culprit, perpetrator; and pronounced with a Fat-hah on the Daal (Muhdath) means an affair innovated in the religion, sheltering and being pleased with it”. [1]

Imam Abdul Azeez Bin Baz, may Allah have mercy upon him, said:

Meaning: those who shelter Ahlul Bidah Wal Ma’aasee – the people of Bidah and disobedience and aid them; those who stop the one who establishes the legislated Islamic punishment against the innovator [i.e. such as preventing the Muslim ruler from punishing the innovator or the scholar who refutes him]; those who establish Bidah and support it. [2]

Imam Muhammad Bin Salih al-Uthaymin, may Allah have mercy upon him, said:

“This bidah includes that of the Jahmiyyah, the Mutazilah and others. So, whoever shelters an innovator is cursed and likewise the one who aids him. In this is a warning against Bidah and newly invented matters in the religion. The Prophet said: “Beware of newly invented matters in the religion, for every innovation [in religious affairs] is misguidance”. The apparent meaning of this hadith [is that this is the case regarding bidah], even if it is a small bidah. [3]

Imam Al-Awzaa’ee, may Allah have mercy upon him, said:

O Muslims! Fear Allaah, accept the advice of the sincere advisers and the admonition of the admonishers. know that this knowledge is religion, so beware of what you do, from whom you take your religion, the one you follow and the one with whom your religion is safe, because indeed all the proponents of religious innovation are all falsifiers, liars and sinners. They are not cautious – neither do they pay attention nor do they fear, and together with that they are not to be trusted that they would not distort what you hear.

They say what they do not know with regards to what they disapprove and when proclaiming their lies; but Allaah (knows, hears and sees) what they do. Therefore, be cautious of them, trust them not, reject them and avoid them, because indeed this is what your earlier scholars did and commanded, and likewise the righteous ones who came thereafter.

Be careful of opposing Allah and being the means to destroying the religion He has ordained – breaking its commands and prohibitions, nullifying and weakening it by respecting the innovators in religious affairs and those who initiate that which is not from the religion, because you know what has been transmitted (i.e. the prohibitions) about respecting or exalting them. And what can be greater respect and exaltation than acquiring your religion from them- following and believing them, drawing close to them and assisting them in enticing the ones they entice and woo to their views and the religion (i.e. religious innovations) they follow. This is sufficient to be regarded as associates of theirs in what they do. [4]

[1] Al-Mulakh’khas Fee Sharhi Kitaab At-tawheed. page 97

[2] An Excerpt from at-Taleeqaat Al-Baaziyyah Alaa Ar-Rasaa’il Al-Aqadiyyah. pages 250-251

[3] Al-Qawlul Mufeed Alaa Kitaab At-tawheed. 1/222

[4] Taareekh Dimashq 6/361