Did the Companions, Successors or Imāms Celebrate the Mawlid? It is unanimously agreed upon by the entire ummah that the practice of the mawlid (birthday celebration) was not known to the Companions, the Successors, the Four Imāms or any of the Imāms from the Righteous Salaf of the first three centuries of Islām and that it is a bidʿah (innovation), something newly introduced into Islām. Imām Tāj al-Dīn al-Fākihānī al-Shāfiʿī (d. 734H) said, “I do not know for this mawlid (celebration) any basis in the Book, nor the Sunnah and nor has its practice been narrated from any one of the Scholars of the Ummah who are the followed leaders in the religion holding fast to the ways of the predecessors. Rather, it is an innovation... Either it is wājib (obligatory), or mandūb (recommended) or permissible (mubāḥ), or makrūh (disliked) or muḥarram (unlawful). It is not wājib by consensus and nor is it mandūb (recommended), because the reality of the mandūb is ‘That (whose performance) the Shariah has requested but without any censure for the one who leaves it.’ But we see that the Sharīʿah has not granted permission for this, and the Companions never did it and nor the Tabiʿūn and nor the religious (devoted) scholars - as far as I know - and this is my answer in front of Allāh, the Exalted if I am asked about it. And it is not permissible that it should be mubāḥ (permitted), because innovating in the religion is not permissible by consensus of the Muslims.”
Posted on: Sat, 03 Jan 2015 02:13:28 +0000
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