Shaykh al-Islām Ibn Taymiyyah (d. 728 AH) said:
Al-Bukhārī narrated from the ḥadīth of Abū Hurayrah (رضي الله عنه) that the Prophet (صلى الله عليه وسلم) said: “My Ummah will assuredly adopt the ways of the generations of the past. Step by step, handspan .” They [the Ṣaḥābah] said: “The Persians and the Romans?” He (صلى الله عليه وسلم) replied: “Who are the people except for them?”1
This was said as a way of informing them of the definite occurrence of such emulation, blaming those who adopt such behaviour. Just as he (صلى الله عليه وسلم) used to relate to them the ḥarām actions of mankind b…
[Q]: The saying of the Prophet (صلى الله عليه وسلم) in the ḥadīth: “If one of your brothers invites you, then answer his invitation whether it be a wedding or other than it,”1 what is meant by ‘your brother’ here? Should we answer the invitation of a religious innovator? Or the wedding invitation of a disbeliever who is among one’s close family or friends while that wedding consists of that which is shirk. Should one answer such an invitation or leave it?
[A]: If the gathering consists of that which is prohibited according to Islamic legislation, then he should not answer this invitation, wh…
