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abudawud:4606[Chain 1] Muḥammad b. al-Ṣabbāḥ al-Bazzāz > Ibrāhīm b. Saʿd [Chain 2] Muḥammad b. ʿĪsá > ʿAbdullāh b. Jaʿfar al-Makhramī And ʾIbrāhīm b. Saʿd > Saʿd b. Ibrāhīm > al-Qāsim b. Muḥammad > ʿĀʾishah

If any one introduces into this affair of ours anything which does not belong to it, it is rejected. Ibn ʿIsa said: The Prophet ﷺ said: If anyone practices any action in a way other than our practice, it is rejected.  

أبو داود:٤٦٠٦حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ الصَّبَّاحِ الْبَزَّازُ حَدَّثَنَا إِبْرَاهِيمُ بْنُ سَعْدٍ ح وَحَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عِيسَى حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ جَعْفَرٍ الْمَخْرَمِيُّ وَإِبْرَاهِيمُ بْنُ سَعْدٍ عَنْ سَعْدِ بْنِ إِبْرَاهِيمَ عَنِ الْقَاسِمِ بْنِ مُحَمَّدٍ عَنْ عَائِشَةَ ؓ قَالَتْ

قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ مَنْ أَحْدَثَ فِي أَمْرِنَا هَذَا مَا لَيْسَ فِيهِ فَهُوَ رَدٌّ قَالَ ابْنُ عِيسَى قَالَ النَّبِيُّ ﷺ مَنْ صَنَعَ أَمْرًا عَلَى غَيْرِ أَمْرِنَا فَهُوَ رَدٌّ  


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An innovation in religion that is not in harmony with it is rejected

bukhari:2697Yaʿqūb > Ibrāhīm b. Saʿd from his father > al-Qāsim b. Muḥammad > ʿĀʾishah

Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, "If somebody innovates something which is not in harmony with the principles of our religion, that thing is rejected."  

البخاري:٢٦٩٧حَدَّثَنَا يَعْقُوبُ حَدَّثَنَا إِبْرَاهِيمُ بْنُ سَعْدٍ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنِ الْقَاسِمِ بْنِ مُحَمَّدٍ عَنْ عَائِشَةَ ؓ قَالَتْ

قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ: «مَنْ أَحْدَثَ فِي أَمْرِنَا هَذَا مَا لَيْسَ فِيهِ فَهُوَ رَدٌّ۔»  

رَوَاهُ عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ جَعْفَرٍ الْمَخْرَمِيُّ وَعَبْدُ الْوَاحِدِ بْنُ أَبِي عَوْنٍ عَنْ سَعْدِ بْنِ إِبْرَاهِيمَ