’ [19] رسولُ اللهِ (صَلَّيَ اللهُ عَلَيهِ وَ آلِهِ) ...
’ [19] رسولُ اللهِ (صَلَّيَ اللهُ عَلَيهِ وَ آلِهِ) : يَا ابْنَ مَسْعُودٍ إِيَّاكَ أَنْ تَسُنَ سُنَّةً بِدْعَةً فَإِنَّ الْعَبْدَ إِذَا سَنَّ سُنَّةَ سَيِّئَةً لَحِقَهُ وِزْرُهَا وَ وِزْرُ مَنْ عَمِلَ بِهَا Rasool Allah -saww said (in a lengthy Hadith), ‘Never start a practice based on an innovation; for a man who initiates a bad practice will incur its sin and the sins of the people who imitate him.’ [20] الْحُسَيْنُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ عَنِ الْمُعَلَّى بْنِ مُحَمَّدٍ عَنْ بِسْطَامَ بْنِ مُرَّةَ عَنْ إِسْحَاقَ بْنِ حَسَّانَ عَنِ الْهَيْثَمِ بْنِ وَاقِدٍ عَنْ عَلِيِّ بْنِ الْحُسَيْنِ الْعَبْدِيِّ عَنْ سَعْدٍ الْإِسْكَافِ عَنِ الْأَصْبَغِ بْنِ نُبَاتَةَ قَالَ قَالَ أَمِيرُ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ ( عليه السلام ) مَا بَالُ أَقْوَامٍ غَيَّرُوا سُنَّةَ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ( صلى الله عليه وآله ) وَ عَدَلُوا عَنْ وَصِيِّهِ لَا يَتَخَوَّفُونَ أَنْ يَنْزِلَ بِهِمُ الْعَذَابُ Al Husayn Bin Muhammad, from Al Moalla Bin Muhammad, from Bastam Bin Murra, from Is’haq Bin Hassan, from Al Haysam Bin Waqid, from Ali Bin Al Husayn Al Abdy, from Sa’d Al Askaf, from Al Asbagh Bin Nubata who said, ‘Amir Al-Momineen -asws said: ‘What is the matter with a people who are changing the Sunnah of Rasool-Allah -saww and are turning away from his -saww bequest?
Are they not fearing that the Punishment might descend upon them?’ ثُمَّ تَلَا هَذِهِ الْآيَةَ أَ لَمْ تَرَ إِلَى الَّذِينَ بَدَّلُوا نِعْمَتَ اللَّهِ كُفْراً وَ أَحَلُّوا قَوْمَهُمْ دارَ الْبَوارِ جَهَنَّمَ Then he -asws recited the Verse [14:28] Have you not seen those who have changed Allah’s Favour for ungratefulness and made their people to alight into the abode of perdition [14:29] into Hell ?’ ثُمَّ قَالَ نَحْنُ النِّعْمَةُ الَّتِي أَنْعَمَ اللَّهُ بِهَا عَلَى عِبَادِهِ وَ بِنَا يَفُوزُ مَنْ فَازَ يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ .
Then he -asws said: ‘We -asws are the Favour which Allah -azwj has Favoured with upon His ‑azwj servants, and with us -asws will be the successful ones, who would succeed on the Day of Judgment’.
[21] Deeds are (only) accepted if performed in accordance with Sunnah: الأمالي للشيخ الطوسي ابْنُ مَخْلَدٍ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عَبْدِ الْوَاحِدِ النَّحْوِيِّ عَنْ مُوسَى بْنِ سَهْلٍ الْوَشَّاءِ عَنْ إِسْمَاعِيلَ بْنِ عُلَيَّةَ عَنْ يُونُسَ بْنِ عُبَيْدٍ عَنِ الْحَسَنِ قَالَ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص عَمَلٌ قَلِيلٌ فِي سُنَّةٍ خَيْرٌ مِنْ عَمَلٍ كَثِيرٍ فِي بِدْعَةٍ.
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