Shaykh Muhammad Nasir ud-Din al-Albani said in al- Silsilat al-Daifah (1/110), where he quotes the (weak) hadeeth, What a good reminder is the subhah [masbahah] : In my view, the meaning of this hadith is invalid for a number of reasons: Firstly , the subhah [ masbahah ] is bidah and was not known at the time of the Prophet, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him. It happened after that, so how could he, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, have encouraged his Sahaabah to do something that was unknown to them? The evidence for what I have said is the report narrated by Ibn Waddah in al- Bidayah wa an-Nihaya from as-Salt ibn Bahram, who reported that Ibn Masud passed by a woman who had a [ masbahah ] with which she was making tasbih , and he broke it and threw it aside, then he passed by a man who was making tasbih with pebbles, and he kicked him then said, You think you are better than the Sahabah , but you are following unjustified bidah ! You think you have more knowledge than the Companions of Muhammad, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him! Its isnad is sahih to as-Salt, who is one of the trustworthy (thiqah ) followers of the tabiin . Secondly , it goes against the guidance of the Prophet, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him. Abdullah ibn Amr said, I saw the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, counting the tasbih on his right hand. He also said (1/117): If there is only one bad thing about the masbahah , which it is that it takes the place of the sunnah of counting on the fingers, even though all are agreed that counting on the fingers is preferable, then that is bad enough. How rarely I see people counting their tasbih on their fingers! Moreover, people have invented so many sophisticated ways of following this bidah, so you see the followers of one of the [ Sufi] tariqahs wearing the masbahah around their necks! Or some of them counting with the beads whilst talking or listening to you! Or another one - the like of whom I have not seen for some time - riding his bicycle through a street crowded with people, with the masbahah in one of his hands! They are showing the people that they are not distracted from the remembrance of Allah for even an instant, but in many cases this bidah is a cause of their neglecting what is obligatory (wajib ). It has happened many times - to others as well as myself - that when I greet one of these people with salam, they answer only by waving and not by saying the words of the greeting. The bad results of this bidah are innumerable, and no one can say it better than the poet: All goodness is in following that which went before (the salaf ) All badness is in the innovations of those who came later. And Allah knows best.
Posted on: Wed, 29 Jan 2014 13:49:18 +0000
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