Imaam
Barbahaaree (rahimahullaah)
said:
‘Know that leaving the correct path occurs in two ways.
Firstly: that a man strays from the correct path intending
nothing but good, so his error is not to be followed since it leads to
destruction. Secondly, a man who deliberately opposes the
truth and acts contrary to the Pious ones who came before him, he is astray,
leading others astray, a rebellious devil within the Ummah. It is a duty upon
those who know of him to warn the people against him and to explain his
condition to them so that no one falls into his innovation and is destroyed.’¹
Sheikh
Saaleh Al-Fawzaan (hafidha-hullaah)
comments on the above statement of Imaam Barbahaaree (rahimahullaah) saying:
