Do we love the Prophet ﷺ more than they did?

 

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Shaykh Ibn ‘Uthaymeen advised:

I say that celebrating the birthday of the Prophet was not [something] known [to have been practiced] by the righteous predecessors.

The rightly guided leaders did not do that, and nor did the [other] companions [of the Prophet ﷺ] do that, and nor did those who followed them in good, and nor did the imaams of the Muslims after them.

And here, we ask…do we have more reverence for the Messenger ﷺ than they did? Answer [my question] O gathering! No [we do not].

Do we have more love for the Messenger ﷺ than they did? No [we do not].

If the matter is as such, then we must follow suit, and not practise the birthday of the Prophet ﷺ; Because it is an innovation.


Translation originally published on 12 October, 2021

- from London, UK. He is a graduate of the Islaamic University of Madeenah, having graduated from the Institute of Arabic Language, and later the Faculty of Sharee'ah in 2004.

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