Kitaab Sharh us-Sunnah
by Al-Barbahaaree
Trans. Abu Talhah Dawud Burbank


100: There has never been any heresy except from the ignorant ones

Know that there has never been any heresy except from the ignorant rabble who follow anyone who calls out wildly. They bend with every wind that blows, so anyone who is like that has no religion. Allah, the Blessed and Most High, says:

They did not differ until after the knowledge came to them, through envy amongst themselves [1].

Those to whom (the Scripture) was given only differed concerning it after clear proofs had come to them through hatred to one another [2].

They are the evil scholars, those greedy (for this world) and who are the innovators.


NOTES

[1] Soorah al-Jaathiyah (45): 17

[2] Soorah al-Baqarah (2): 213


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