حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو عَبْدِ اللَّهِ، قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ الصَّبَّاحِ، قَالَ أَنْبَأَنَا جَرِيرٌ، عَنِ الأَعْمَشِ، عَنْ أَبِي صَالِحٍ، عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: ذَرُونِي مَا تَرَكْتُكُمْ فَإِنَّمَا هَلَكَ مَنْ كَانَ قَبْلَكُمْ بِسُؤَالِهِمْ وَاخْتِلاَفِهِمْ عَلَى أَنْبِيَائِهِمْ فَإِذَا أَمَرْتُكُمْ بِشَىْءٍ فَخُذُوا مِنْهُ مَا اسْتَطَعْتُمْ وَإِذَا نَهَيْتُكُمْ عَنْ شَىْءٍ فَانْتَهُوا
Book 0: The book of the sunnah
Chapter 1: Following the sunnah of the Messenger of Allāh (peace and blessings of Allāh be upon him)
Ḥadīth [2]: It is narrated on the authority of Abū Hurayrah [d. 57H] (may Allāh be pleased with him) that he said: The Messenger of Allāh (peace and blessings of Allāh be upon him) said: “Leave me as I have left you (don’t ask me the minor things that I have avoided to tell you). For those who came before you were doomed because of their questions and differences with their Prophets. If I command you to do something, then do as much of it as you can, and if I forbid you from doing something, then refrain from it.”
This ḥadīth proves that opposing the saying of the Messenger of Allāh (peace and blessings of Allāh be upon him) after having knowledge of it is a reason of ummah’s destruction and devastation. In these days, we see with our own eyes that the Muslim nation has fallen into a deep pit of regret because of ignoring their religion.
• Reference: [2679 (5/75), Sunan at-Tirmidhī, Dārussalām (Eng)]
❶ Permissibility is the rule in all worldly affairs as long as they are not prohibited by the Qurān and sunnah. In the case of acts of worship, however, the rule is that only those acts are allowed that have their proof in the Qurān and sunnah. It, therefore, follows that any newly-invented thing in religious matters is an innovation (bid’ah). Not so in the case of worldly affairs.
❷ Discussion on matters having no practical reverence must be avoided.
❸ Disobedience to the commands of the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allāh be upon him) means inviting one’s own doom and destruction.
❹ In cases where a person is not able to comply with a certain commandment for a reason, accepted in the sacred law of Islam as genuine, he will not be reckoned a sinner by Allāh, as expressed in the following āyah of the Qurān: “Allāh burdens not a soul with more than it can bear…” [Sūrah al-Baqarah 2: 286].
• Reference: [2 (1/73-74), Sunan ibn Mājah, Dārussalām (Eng)]
• Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī (7288)
• Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim (1337)
• Sunan at-Tirmidhī (2679)
• Sunan ibn Mājah (1)
• Musnad Abī Ya’lā (6305 (11/195-197))
• Bayhaqī’s Sunan al-Kubrā (13593 (7/166))
Non-primary books:
• Kanzul ‘Ummāl (974 (1/192-193))
• Al-Musnad al-Jāmi’ (14515 (17/821-822))
• Tuḥfatul Ashrāf (12361 (9/83))
Grade:
• Ṣaḥīḥ by Shaykh al-Albānī (Sunan ibn Mājah (2 (1/13)))
• Ṣaḥīḥ by Majlis ‘Ilmi Dar ad-Da’wah, New Delhi (Sunan ibn Mājah (2 (1/8-9)))
• Isnād ṣaḥīḥ by Shaykh Shu’ayb al-Arna’ūṭ (Sunan ibn Mājah (2 (1/3-4)))
• Isnād ḥasan by Shaykh Ḥusayn Asad (Musnad Abī Ya’lā)
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