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Encyclopedia > Bidah

In the Arabic language, Bidah means innovation. Islamically speaking, bidah is generally defined as innovation into the religion. Innovation into the religion is considered by many Muslims to be a serious sin. A Muslim is a believer in or follower of Islam. ...


One evidence for this comes from the following hadith. In an authenic hadith in Al-Bukhari and Al-Muslim, Aisha reported Muhammad said, "Whoever innovates into this affair of ours something that we have not commanded it is to be rejected." Hadith (Arabic: , Arabic pl. ... Muhammad Ibn Ismail Ibn Ibrahim Ibn al-Mughirah Ibn Bardizbah al-Bukhari محمد بن اسماعيل بن ابراهيم بن المغيرة بن بردزبه البخاري (born 810 - died 870), Arabic author of the most generally accepted collection of traditions (Hadith) from Muhammad, was born at Bokhara (Bukharä), of an Iranian family, in AH... Abul Husayn Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj Qushayri al-Nisaburi (Arabic: أبو الحسين مسلم بن الحجاج القشيري النيسابوري) (born 204 A.H. - 261 (or 268?) A.H/ 875), Muslim Author of the second most widely recognized collection of Hadith in Sunni Islam. ... She by Rider Haggard. ... Muhammad is a common male name for Muslims. ...


For Muslims, innovation in matters of the world such as in the realm of technology, medicine, and computers is valued as a necessity for the betterment of humanity.


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Bidah - its Evil and Refutation 1 (844 words)
Bid'ahs in the matters of life, like the new scientific inventions are permissible because originally, what is a matter of life or habit is permissible.
The prohibited Bid'ah is to innovate in the religion.
Consequently, every Bid'ah, that is introduced in the religion has to be rejected as for the reason that only Allaah and His Messenger (sallallahu alahi wa-sallam) have the right to legislate in the Sharee'ah.
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