all the followers of the prophet salallahu without exceptions believed that the prophet
sallallahu alaihi wasallam is a source of guidance as time passed and during the lifetime of one of
the great imams al-imam shafir there was a small group of people who emerged they believed that the
prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam sunnah is not a binding source of guidance and imam al-shafi'i
rahimahullah who lived in the second century he ended up nipping this fitna in the bud the fitnah
of people who believed that there is no sunnah of the prophet or if there happens to be a sunnah it
is not something that we need to follow it is not something that we need to abide by
now after al-imam shafiri nipped this fitna in the bud thereafter for centuries on in all the way
till the imam the time of ali masuyoti we saw no recurrence of this fitnah and all muslims without
exception believed that the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam is a source of guidance for us
and it was during the time of al-imam who died in the year 911 after the hijrah of the prophet saws
he in his time noticed that some people they started to believe also again that perhaps
the sunnah doesn't have utility perhaps the prophet's legacy doesn't have any utility except
the quran itself and we follow only the quran but even at that time the great imam jalaluddin
allah he wrote extensively on this topic and he also put this fitna to rest again
thereafter again for centuries on in for at least three or four centuries we saw no recurrence of
this until we came to the time of post-colonialism where we started to see the rise of people who are
saying we don't need to follow the guidance of the prophet sallallahu we don't need to have a sunnah
of the prophet saws we don't need to have any usual we don't need to have any guide within the
prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam he's not our example we only take the quran and we take nothing
but the quran but the reality is these people who believe that we only take the quran and nothing
but the quran they are ever mistaken they don't know and they have mistaken they are mistaken
even in their understanding of the quran itself how so well allah tells us in the quran itself
the final day and remember allah for them is of a surety and definitely
an example within the prophet
so you see the quran is telling us the messenger is an example
or there are some people within the society today who believe that the prophet sallallahu
alaihi wasallam is not an example you have a choice you can follow the quran
or you can follow the desires of man my dear brother my dear sister
his manners his way of living itself was the quran so even those people who believe that we
should only follow the quran if they truly believe that they would follow the prophet why because
the quran is telling us the prophet is an example and a isha is telling us that the example he used
to exemplify was the quran itself i ask allah subhanahu wa to allow us to live with between
the legacy that the prophet sallam has left behind and the prophet summarized this legacy by saying
that allah i have been given the quran and something very like it
as well along with the quran and that's the sunnah or the hadith
that's the sunnah which is embodied in the hadith of the prophet sallallahu alaihi
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