Also, the Prophet ﷺ has praised the Ṣaḥābah, the Tābiʿīn, and the third generation, in these reports.
وأيضا فإن النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم أثنى في تلك الأخبار على أصحابه وعلى قرن التابعين ثم على القرن الثالث

So if he has praised them, then they are the Jamāʿah whom one should not oppose.
فإذا أثنى عليهم فهم الجماعة التي لا ينبغي أن تخالف

And everyone who opposes them, is of Ahl al-Bāṭil (ie: the people of falsehood).
وكل من خالفهم فهو أهل الباطل

And were [these] three generations they who did not blindly follow anyone,
ولو كانوا أهل الأرض تلك القرون الثلاثة هي التي لم تقلد أحدا

but instead sought the Qurʾān and Sunan,
وإنما كانوا يطلبون القرآن والسنن

then we are with them,
فنحن معهم

And all praise is due to Allah the Lord of all that Exists.
والحمد لله رب العالمين

And anyone who blindly follows a specific person, has opposed al-Jamāʿah.
وكل من قلد إنسانا بعينه فقد خالف الجماعة

And all praise is due to Allah the Lord of all that Exists.
والحمد لله رب العالمين

Ibn Ḥazm, al-Iḥkām fī Uṣūl ʾl-Aḥkām 4/198
ابن حزم، الإحكام في أصول الأحكام ٤/١٩٨
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ʿAbd Allah reported in al-Sunnah 1/216:
قال عبد الله في «السنة» (ج 1ص 216):

Sufyān (b. ʿUyaynah) said: I was with Abū Ḥanīfah one day when a man came to him and asked him a question about currency exchange, and he made a mistake in it.
حدثني محمد بن علي نا سفيان قال: كنت عند أبي حنيفة يوماً فأتاه رجل فسأله عن مسألة في الصرف فأخطأ فيها،

I said: “O Abū Ḥanīfah! This is a mistake.”
فقلت: يا أبا حنيفة هذا خطأ

He got angry and said to the one who asked for the fatwá: “Go, act upon it, and any sin in it is upon my neck.”
فغضب وقال للذي أفتاه: اذهب فاعمل بها وما كان فيها من إثم فهو عنقي.

Muqbil b. Hādī al-Wādiʿī, Nashr al-Saḥīfah fi ḏikr ʿl-Ṣaḥīḥ min aqwāl Aʿimmah ʿl-Jarḥ wa ʿl-Taʿdil fī Abī Ḥanīfah 1/344
مقبل بن هادي الوادعي، نشر الصحيفة في ذكر الصحيح من أقوال أئمة الجرح والتعديل في أبي حنيفة ١/٣٤٤
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It was related by Yaʿqūb b. Shaybah that it reached him that ʿImrān b. Ḥiṭṭān had a cousin who was upon the ideology of the Khawārij, وروى يعقوب بن شيبة أنه بلغه أن عمران بن حطان كانت له بنت عم كانت ترى رأى الخوارج and he married her with the intention to…

Praising oneself is more distasteful than praising someone else.
وَمَدْحُك نَفْسَك أَقْبَحُ مِنْ مَدْحِك غَيْرِك،

Because it is much more likely that a person would exaggerate his status than that of someone else.
فَإِنَّ غَلَطَ الْإِنْسَانِ فِي حَقِّ نَفْسِهِ أَكْثَرُ مِنْ غَلَطِهِ فِي حَقِّ غَيْرِهِ،

The love of a thing makes you blind and deaf,
فَإِنَّ حُبَّك الشَّيْءَ يُعْمِي وَيُصِمُّ،

and nothing is more beloved to a person than his own self.
وَلَا شَيْءَ أَحَبُّ إلَى الْإِنْسَانِ مِنْ نَفْسِهِ،

This is why he sees the ʿuyūb (ie: faults) of others but he cannot see his own.
وَلِذَلِكَ يَرَى عُيُوبَ غَيْرِهِ وَلَا يَرَى عُيُوبَ نَفْسِهِ،

And he finds an excuse for himself whilst he is critical of others (who do the very same thing he does).
وَيَعْذُرُ بِهِ نَفْسَهُ بِمَا لَا يَعْذُرُ بِهِ غَيْرَهُ،

Hence Allah the Exalted said: {So do not claim yourselves to be pure; He is most knowing of who fears Him} [al-Najm: 32]
وَقَدْ قَالَ تَعَالَى: {فَلا تُزَكُّوا أَنْفُسَكُمْ هُوَ أَعْلَمُ بِمَنِ اتَّقَى} [النجم: 32]

al-ʿIzz Ibn ʿAbd al-Salām, Qawāʿid al-Aḥkām 2/210
عز الدين بن عبد السلام، قواعد الأحكام في مصالح الأنام ٢/٢١٠
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The Messenger of Allah ﷺ only ever approves of al-ḥaq (ie: the Truth) and what is good,
قَالَ عَلِيٌّ: إنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ - صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ - لَا يُقِرُّ إلَّا عَلَى الْحَقِّ الْحَسَنِ،

and he would not witness something hated, except that he would [clarify that it is hated],
وَلَا يَرَى مَكْرُوهًا إلَّا كَرِهَهُ،

nor any mistake, except that he would prohibit it.
وَلَا خَطَأً إلَّا نَهَى عَنْهُ.

Allah taʿālá said: {That you make clear to the people what has been sent down to them}, [al-Naḥl: 44]
قَالَ اللَّهُ تَعَالَى {لِتُبَيِّنَ لِلنَّاسِ مَا نُزِّلَ إِلَيْهِمْ} [النحل: 44].

Ibn Ḥazm, al-Muḥallá bi ʾl-Āthār 2/23
ابن حزم، المحلى بالآثار ٢/٢٣
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And also we know bi ʿl-ḍarūrah (ie: by necessity with certainty) that during the ʿaṣr (ie: era of) al-Ṣaḥābah, there was not a single man who took another among them and made taqlīd (ie: blind-following) to him in all his sayings, accepting everything from him while rejecting all sayings from others.
وَأَيْضًا فَإِنَّا نَعْلَمُ بِالضَّرُورَةِ أَنَّهُ لَمْ يَكُنْ فِي عَصْرِ الصَّحَابَةِ رَجُلٌ وَاحِدٌ اتَّخَذَ رَجُلًا مِنْهُمْ يُقَلِّدُهُ فِي جَمِيعِ أَقْوَالِهِ فَلَمْ يُسْقِطْ مِنْهَا شَيْئًا، وَأَسْقَطَ أَقْوَالَ غَيْرِهِ فَلَمْ يَأْخُذْ مِنْهَا شَيْئًا.

We also know bi ʿl-ḍarūrah that this practice did not exist in the ʿaṣr of al-tābiʿīn nor in the time of the followers of al-tābiʿīn.
وَنَعْلَمُ بِالضَّرُورَةِ أَنَّ هَذَا لَمْ يَكُنْ فِي عَصْرِ التَّابِعِينَ وَلَا تَابِعِي التَّابِعِينَ،

Let those muqallidūn (ie: who blindly follow) prove us wrong by showing us a single person who followed their perilous path during the virtuous centuries, as described by the tongue of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ.
فَلْيَكْذِبْنَا الْمُقَلَّدُونَ بِرَجُلٍ وَاحِدٍ سَلَكَ سَبِيلَهُمْ الْوَخِيمَةَ فِي الْقُرُونِ الْفَضِيلَةِ عَلَى لِسَانِ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ - صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ،

This bidʿah (of taqlīd) originated in al-qarn al-rābiʿ (ie: fourth century) the condemnation of which era was done by the tongue of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ.
وَإِنَّمَا حَدَثَتْ هَذِهِ الْبِدْعَةُ فِي الْقَرْنِ الرَّابِعِ الْمَذْمُومِ عَلَى لِسَانِ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ - صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ -؛

Those who blindly follow their leaders in everything they say, permitting and prohibiting matters related to al-furūj wa ʿl-dimāʾ wa ʿl-amwāl (ie: marriage, life, and property) without knowing whether it is right or wrong, are in great danger.
فَالْمُقَلَّدُونَ لِمَتْبُوعِهِمْ فِي جَمِيعِ مَا قَالُوهُ يُبِيحُونَ بِهِ الْفُرُوجَ وَالدِّمَاءَ وَالْأَمْوَالَ، وَيُحَرِّمُونَهَا، وَلَا يَدْرُونَ أَذَلِكَ صَوَابٌ أَمْ خَطَأٌ، عَلَى خَطَرٍ عَظِيمٍ،

They will face a severe standing before Allah, where it will be known who spoke about Allah without knowledge, and that they were not upon anything.
وَلَهُمْ بَيْنَ يَدَيْ اللَّهِ مَوْقِفٌ شَدِيدٌ يَعْلَمُ فِيهِ مَنْ قَالَ عَلَى اللَّهِ مَا لَا يَعْلَمُ أَنَّهُ لَمْ يَكُنْ عَلَى شَيْءٍ.

Ibn al-Qayyim, Iʿlām al-Muwaqqʿīn ʿan Rabb al-ʿĀlamīn 2/145
ابن القيم، إعلام الموقعين عن رب العالمين ٢/١٤٥
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“He (the Prophet, ﷺ) used to kiss me (ie: ʿĀʿishah) when he was fasting and I was fasting.”
" كان يقبلني وهو صائم وأنا صائمة. يعني عائشة ".

Reported by Abū Dāwūd, on the authority of ʿĀʿishah (may Allah be pleased with her) who raised it (to the Prophet ﷺ).
أخرجه أبو داود (1/374) وأحمد (6/179) من طريقين عن سفيان عن سعد بن إبراهيم عن طلحة بن عبد الله يعني ابن عثمان القرشي عن عائشة رضي الله عنها مرفوعا.

I say: The chain is Ṣaḥīḥ upon the condition of al-Bukhārī.
قلت: وهذا سند صحيح على شرط البخاري.

Muḥammad Nāṣir ʾl-Dīn al-Albānī, Silsilah al-Aḥādīth al-Ṣaḥīḥah 1/430 #219
محمد ناصر الدين الألباني، السلسلة الصحيحة ١/٤٣٠ #٢١٩
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From Ismāʿīl b. Isḥāq that Abū ʿAbd Allah (ie: Imām Aḥmad) was asked: about a man who has a Rāfīḍī neighbor, should he greet him?
أَخْبَرَنَا إِسْمَاعِيلُ بْنُ إِسْحَاقَ الثَّقَفِيُّ النَّيْسَابُورِيُّ، أَنَّ أَبَا عَبْدِ اللَّهِ سُئِلَ عَنْ رَجُلٍ لَهُ جَارٌ رَافِضِيُّ يُسَلِّمُ عَلَيْهِ؟

He said: “No, and if he greets him, do not respond.”
قَالَ: «لَا، وَإِذَا سَلَّمَ عَلَيْهِ لَا يَرُدُّ عَلَيْهِ»

Abū Bakr b. al-Khallāl, al-Sunnah 3/494 #784
أبي بكر بن الخلال، السنة ٣/٤٩٤ #٧٨٤
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The Book and the Sunnah agree with one another,
وَالْكِتَابُ وَالسُّنَّةُ يُصَدِّقُ بَعْضُهُ بَعْضًا؛

and the Salaf are the greatest of this Ummah,
وَالسَّلَفُ خَيْرُ هَذِهِ الْأُمَّةِ

and their path is the greatest of paths.
وَطَرِيقُهُمْ أَفْضَلُ الطُّرُقِ.

Ibn Taymiyyah, Majmūʿ al-Fatāwá 5/177
ابن تيمية، مجموع الفتاوى ٥/١٧٧
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