Re: Bidaa... What do you understand from that word?
روى الإمام البيهقي في مناقب الشافعي رضي الله عنه، قال :
المحدثات ضربان: ما أحدث مما يخالف كتابا أو سنة أو أثرا أو إجماعا فهذه بدعة الضلال، وما أحدث من الخير لا خلاف فيه لواحد من هذا. أنتهى.
Al-Hafidh, al-Mujtahid, Al-Bayhaqiy Narrated in "Manaqib ash-Sahfi3iy:
Innovations are of 2 types, one that opposes the Qur’an and Sunnah or the sayings of the companions or the Ijam^, consensus of the scholars, that is the innovation of misguidance. The second type is what was innovated from the good innovations that has no opposition to any of the aforementioned sources.
روى أبو نعيم عن إبراهيم الجنيد قال: سمعت الشافعي يقول: البدعة بدعتان: بدعة محمودة وبدعة مذمومة، فما وافق السنة فهو محمود، وما خالف السنة فهو مذموم
Abu Na^im narrated from the route of Ibrahim al-Junayd he said: I heard shafi^iy say that the Bid^a is of 2 types, a praised bid^a and a dispraised bid^ah. What complies with the alsunna it’s praised, and what opposes alsunnah it’s dispraised.
تَنْقَسِمُ البدعة إلى قِسْمَين كَما يُفهَمُ ذلكَ مِن حَديثِ عائِشَةَ رضِيَ الله عنْها قالَت: قالَ رسولُ الله صلى الله عليه وسلم: "مَن أَحْدَثَ في أمْرِنا هَذا مَا لَيسَ منْهُ فَهُوَ رَدٌّ"، أي مَردُودٌ. والحديث رواهُ البخارِيُّ ومسلمٌ،
Bid^a is of tow types as taken from the hadith of ^aisha may Allah’s mercy be upon her as she said: The messenger peace be upon him said: Prophet Muhammad , says in this respect: "He who innovates something that is not in agreement with our matter (religion), will have it rejected.
وروى الحافظ البيهقي بإسناده في مناقب الشافعي عن الشافعي رضي الله عنه قال: "المحدَثات من الأمور ضربان: أحدهما ما أحدث مما يخالف كتابًا أو سنةً أو أثرًا أو إجماعًا، فهذه البدعة الضلالة، والثانية: ما أحدث من الخير لا خلاف فيه لواحد من هذا، وهذه محدثة غير مذمومة" اهـ.
Al-Bayhaqiy narrated with his Isna also in “Manaqib ash-shafi^iy” that ash-shafi^iy may Allah have mercy upon both of them said “Innovations are of 2 types, one that opposes the Qur’an and Sunnah or the sayings of the companions or the Ijam^, consensus of the scholars, that is the innovation of misguidance. The second type is what was innovated from the good innovations that has no opposition to any of the aforementioned sources, and that is the innovation that is not dispraised.
Allah knows. Best.
SO, it can’t be put any simpler than this:
Innovation (Bid^ah) is of two types one that does not comply with Qur’an and Sunnah and that is rejected, and one that complies with Qur’an and Sunnah which is accepted in Islam such as al-Mawlid celebration.