Question 6: What is the difference between their saying, “This is a person of innovation (saahibu bid’ah)” and “this is an innovator (mubtadi’)”? Shaykh ‘Ubayd: In my view the difference is clear and I will explain it to you: That which we know from the expressions of the People of Knowledge, and their way and methodology in their saying “Mubtadi”’, is that they do not apply it absolutely, except for the one upon whom the proof has been established, and who is a person of misguidance, and who is misguided, misguiding others. So they say, “Mubtadi”’. And sometimes they may also use it unrestrictedly, but from the angle of rebuke, reprimand. However, overwhelmingly, they do not say “Mubtadi’ (Innovator)” except for the one who traversed upon innovation and the proof was established upon him. As for “person of innovation (saahibu bid’ah)”, then the condition of the proof being established does not apply to it. And they say, “this is a person of innovation”, meaning he traverses upon innovations (or something from them), and this is more general. “Person of innovation” is something more general, and as for “Mubtadi’”, then it is more specific. Meaning a word that is more specific. So understand this well, may Allaah bless you. (SOURCE: The Crime of Tamyee’("to soften, to melt") upon the Salafee Manhaj Questions and Answers with Shaykh ‘Ubayd al-Jaabiree)
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