Secondly,
from the Sunnah:
1. The Statement of the Prophet صلى الله
عليه وسلم: “The best of people are my generation then those who
succeed them, then those who succeed them” [Saheeh al-Bukhaaree (5/199,
7/6 and 11/460) and Saheeh Muslim (7/184 and 185)]
This excellence and goodness which the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم attested to for these three generations, is an
indication of their preference, precedence and majestic rank as well as their
knowledge of Allaah’s laws and intense adherence to the way of His Messenger صلى الله عليه وسلم.
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2. The Messenger’s صلى الله
عليه وسلم statement:
“The Jews split up into seventy-one sects, the
Christians split up into seventy-two sects and this Ummah will split up into
seventy-three sects; all of them are in the Fire except one.”
Someone asked: “Which is that one O Messenger of Allaah?” He صلى الله
عليه وسلم replied:
“Whoever is upon that which I am upon [today]
and my companions. [Sunan Abu Dawood (4596-4597), al-Tirmidhee (2640-2641),
Musnad of Imaam Ahmad (2/332, 3/120 145 and 4/120) and Ibn Majah (3991-3993) and
the wordings are of al-Tirmidhee, and Shaikh al-Albaanee graded some of its
chains as “Saheeh”, some as “Hasan Saheeh” and others as “Hasan”]
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3. His صلى الله عليه وسلم statement: “…
for indeed, those who will still be alive after me will see many differences;
so hold fast to my Sunnah and to the Sunnah of the rightly guided khaleefahs
after me. Adhere to and cling tightly to it and beware of newly-invented
matters, for every newly-invented matter is an innovation and every innovation
is a deviation.” [Musnad of Imaam Ahmad (4/126-127), Sunan Abu Dawood
(4607), al-Tirmidhee (2676), Ibn Maajah (43) al-Daarimi (1/44) and others and
graded as “Saheeh” by Shaikh al-Albaanee]
Hence, the Prophet صلى الله
عليه وسلم encouraged
his ummah to follow his Sunnah and the Sunnah of the rightly guided khaleefahs
after him at the appearance of splits and differences.
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