The Prophet (ﷺ) said: the parable of the one who remembers Allāh and one who does not is like the living and the dead.
Narrated by al-Bukhārī and MuslimImām Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī al-Shawkānī [d. 1250 AH] said:1
This ḥadīth has been narrated by al-Bukhārī and Muslim from the aḥadīth of Abū Mūsá [al-Ashʿarī] (may Allāh be pleased with him). This is al-Bukhārī’s wording of the ḥadīth in the chapter entitled ‘Invocations’ and Muslim mentioned it in the chapter of ‘Ṣalāh’ from his [book] ‘Al-Ṣaḥīḥ’ with the wording:
‘The likeness of a house in which Allāh is remembered and a house devoid of Allāh…
‘Whomever innovates in our matter [of Islām] that which is not from it will have [that which he innovated] rejected [by Allāh]’ or ‘whomever executes an action [of worship] that is not from our matter [of Islām] will have that [innovated action] rejected [by Allāh],’
Prophet (ﷺ) in the ḥadīth of ʿĀʾishahImām ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Nāṣir al-Saʿdī [d. 1376 AH] said:1
it denotes both an explicit and implicit meaning.
As for its explicit meaning of the ḥadīth
It unequivocally proves that any act of innovation devised in this dīn, for which there exists no basis in the Book [of Allāh] or the Sunnah…
Narrated by Abū Hurayrah ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Ṣakhr (may Allāh be pleased with him) who said:1
I heard the Messenger of Allāh (ﷺ) say: ‘Whatever I have forbidden you from, refrain from it completely. Whatever I have ordered you with, carry out to the very best of your ability. For the nations, before you were only destroyed because of their copious amount of questions, and their disagreements with their prophets.’
Narrated by al-Bukhārī and MuslimAl-Ḥāfiẓ Ibn Rajab [d. 795 AH] said:
The meaning of this is that everything that a Muslim could conceivably need relating to his dīn, without a d…
The following collection of benefits describe and teach the three different rulings of Allāh.
If your strength [of understanding] is deficient to where you cannot comprehend these words, then contemplate the words of ʿUmar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb [رضي الله عنه] when he was reprimanded for fleeing from a plague [that had consumed a people in his time]. It was said to him: ‘Do you seek emancipation from the ordainment of Allāh?’ to which he replied: ‘We flee from the ordainment of Allāh to another of His ordainments.’
Imām Ibn al-QayyimThe Three Types of Rulings of Allāh and the State of a Submissiv…
