Re: Is this true?
Good brother. May Allah bless you. Now consider this, you know the Hadith about Istigathaa. It is possible that the first site I took it from - the Arabic - inflected it wrong! You know that the Hadith were recorded without vowels. If you download the Volume 10 of Al-Haythmi, you will see it is not inflected.
Considering how all Arabs understand it to mean a Nafi for prohibition, perhaps the website site inflected it wrong.
Now getting to the point of Aqeedah. Aqeedah cannot be taken from weak Hadith! As a matter of fact according the school you and vroom follow, it cannot be taken from authentic hadith either if it is not mutawaatir or mashoor.
But first lets decided if this is an issue of Aqeedah. I mentioned this to vroom and he said this is not Aqeedah rather only an act Muslims perform. If you scroll back you will find his statement.
So, what do you say. Is this a matter of Aqeedah or not?