Ubunifu wa kidini (bid'ah) ni kinyume cha Sunnah.

A--- Innovation is the antonym of Sunnah.

Bid'ah ni kutunga sheria ambayo Allah Mtukufu hakuiwekea. Mtume wa Allah ﷺ anamaanisha hili anaposema: "Atakayeleta katika jambo letu hili, yaani dini, kitu ambacho si sehemu yake, kitakataliwa." (Bukhari na Muslim)

Innovation means to legislate what has not been ordained by Allah the Almighty. Allah's Messenger (Peace be upon him) means this when he says: "If any of you introduces into this affair of ours "religion” anything which does not belong to it, it is rejected.” (Bukhari and Muslim)

Yeye (Amani iwe juu yake) anasema: "Shikamaneni na Sunnah yangu na njia ya Makhalifa waongofu (wale watakaokuja) baada yangu. Shikamaneni nayo, mzingatie kwa uthabiti, na jihadharini na bid'ah, kwani kila bid'ah ni upotevu." (Abu Dawud, At-Tirmidhi na Ibn Majah)

He (Peace be upon him) says: "Stick to my Sunnah and the way of the rightly-guided Caliphs (those who come) after me, stick to it, adhere thereto firmly, and be ware of innovations for every innovation is a misguidance." (Abu Dawud, AtTirmidhi and Ibn Majah)

Anasema (Amani ya Mwenyezi Mungu iwe juu yake) ﷺ: "... na umma huu utagawanyika katika madhehebu sabini na tatu za kidini, - wote watakuwa Motoni isipokuwa moja, nayo ni ile ambayo mimi na masahaba wangu tumo leo, yaani kufuata Qur-ani na Sunnah ya Mtume ﷺ."(Abu Dawud, At-Tirmidhi na Ibn Majah)

He (Peace be upon him) says: "... and this nation will be divided into seventy-three religious sects, -all in Hell, except one, and that one is: on which I and my companions are today, i.e. following the Qur'an and the Prophet's Sunnah.”(Abu Dawud, At-Tirmidhi and Ibn Majah)

Allah Mwenye Nguvu zote alitangaza kutokuwa na hatia kwake ﷺ kuhusu kuwa miongoni mwa watu wa Bid'ah, akisema: {Hakika wale waliogawanya dini yao na kuwa makundi makundi (madhehebu ya kila aina ya dini), wewe (Ewe Muhammad ﷺ) huna chochote nao kabisa.

Allah the Almighty declared his (Peace be upon him) innocence from belonging to the people of Innovations, saying: {Verily, those who divide their religion and break up into sects (all kinds of religious sects), you (O Muhammad (Peace be upon him)) have no concern in them in the least.

{Jambo lao ni kwa Mwenyezi Mungu pekee}. (Al-An'am, 159)

Their affair is only with Allah}. (Al-An' am, 159)