205curated hadith rotate here, mostly from Imam Nawawi's Forty Hadith, each from Sahih al-Bukhari, Sahih Muslim, or the Sunan collections with its reference cited.

Hadith for · sunnah

Whoever innovates in this affair of ours

Monday, October 19, 1981

مَنْ أَحْدَثَ فِي أَمْرِنَا هَذَا مَا لَيْسَ مِنْهُ فَهُوَ رَدٌّ

Transliteration

Man ahdatha fi amrina hadha ma laysa minhu fa-huwa radd.

Translation

Whoever introduces into this affair of ours something that is not from it, it is rejected.

Narrated by 'A'ishah·Sahih al-Bukhari 2697, Sahih Muslim 1718·Nawawi's Forty · #5

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