Hadith Terminologies
Narration by an Innovator
A Hadith whose narrator believes in or practices an innovation (bid‘ah) that causes disbelief (kufr), but if the narrator’s innovation is not of disbelief and he is also just (‘Adil’) and precise (Dhabit), then his narration is considered reliable. Note: Bid‘ah causing disbelief (kufr) leads to apostasy.