Question:
What is the ruling on a person that says be aware that our aqeedah is different from the Sahabah because we did not have the Prophet (s), and because of fabrications in hadith, therefore we have to be careful what we take into aqeedah, so they say accept only mutawatir hadith?
Answer:
It is impermissible to say that the `aqidah of Muslims today is different from that of the Sahaba but Ahl al-Sunna only admit mutawatir-rank evidence as a basis in defining Islamic `aqidaj. Only a handful of innovators such as Albani differed.
Hajj Gibril
