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السلام عليكم و رحمة الله

1-There is no such thing as Bida'ah Hasanah, an innovation is an innovation in the Istilahi sense concerning religious practices.

2- Accusing the righteous Caliphs of innovating in religion is the saying of the ignorant as anyone with knowledge of Hadith knows that the Prophet SAWS said: "Follow my Sunnah and that of the rightly guided Caliphs after me".

3-'Uthman (ra) added the third Athan when the Islamic state became large and the city became huge so he told them to make one additional Athan in the opposing direction so that the people on the other side may hear it, otherwise they wouldn't hear it and the Athan did not change it was the same exact Athan.

4-We already replied to the Shias who claimed that 'Umar (ra) innovated in Taraweeh and Fajr Athan and Mutah marriage, these are baseless accusations.

5-A good number of renowned scholars accepted the concept of Bida'ah Hasanah especially in my Madhab but I want to be on the safe side so I don't encourage any of the Bida'ah Hasanah acts such as the Mawlid but I won't go and attack the people who participate in it.

و الصلاة و السلام على سيدنا و حبيبنا محمد و على آله و صحبه و سلم