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Section 5 - The danger of opposing his command

Opposing his command and changing his Sunnah is misguidance and innovation. It is threatened by Allâh with utter bereftness and punishment.

Allâh says, "Let those who oppose his command beware of a trial that might strike them or a painful punishment that might befall them." (24:63) and "Whoever splits from the Messenger of Allâh after the guidance is clear to him and follows other than the path of the believers, We shall entrust him to what he has turned to." (4:114)

Abû Hurayrah said that once the Messenger of Allâh went to visit some graves and, while there, described his community, saying, "Some men will be driven away from my Basin as a stray camel is driven off. I will call to them, 'Come here! Come here!' It will be said, 'They made changes after you.' Then I will say, 'Get away! Get away!' " (Muslim, Mâlik, Abû Dâwûd and an-Nasâ'î)

Anas related that the Prophet said, "Anyone who dislikes my sunnah is not of me." (Muslim and al-Bukhârî)

The Prophet said, "Anyone who adds something to my commands which is not part of them is a renegade." (Muslim and al-Bukhârî)

Ibn Abî Rafi' related from his father that the Prophet said, "Do not let any of you be found reclining on his bed when he hears an injunction from me which is from among those things which I myself have commanded or forbidden so that he says, 'I do not know. We only follow what we find in the Book of Allâh.' " He added a version of the hadîth from al-Miqdâm, "What the Messenger of Allâh makes unlawful is like what Allâh makes unlawful." (Abû Dâwûd, at-Tirmidhî and Ibn Mâjah)

Once when some writing on a shoulder-blade was brought to him, the Prophet said, "People are stupid enough to dislike what their Prophet has brought them, preferring someone else to their own Prophet or another book to their book." So it was revealed, "Or is it not enough for them that We sent down the Book on them which is recited to them?" (29:51) (Abû Dâwûd, ad-Dârimî, Ibn Jarîr and others)

The Prophet, may Allâh bless him and grant him peace, said, "Those who go to extremes in speech will be destroyed." (Muslim via Ibn Mas'ûd)

Abû Bakr as-Siddîq said, "I have not omitted doing anything that the Messenger of Allâh used to do. If feared that I would deviate if I left out any of his commands."

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