DETAILED CLARIFICATION OF INNOVATIONS
قيل Innovation Definition The linguistic meaning of bidˆah (innovation) is: مَا أُحْدِثَ عَلَى غَيْرِ مِثَالٍ سَابِقٍ ‘that which was made without a previous example’. Religiously, it is that which was not documented in the Qur’aan, and did not come in the Sunnah. Ibnu-l-ˆArabiyy said “The innovation (bidˆah; muhdath) is not dispraised merely because of the ...