This ḥadith therefore establishes that everything traceable to the Age of Ignorance is blameworthy; for the Prophet’s words, “There remains within you something of the Age of Ignorance,” are themselves a censure of that trait, and the intended point would not be achieved unless the description carried with it a condemnation of whatever it encompassed.

It also shows that ridiculing people on account of their lineage is one of the manners of the Age of Ignorance.

Furthermore, a man—despite his standing, knowledge, and piety—may still retain certain characteristics described as “Jahili,” or even “Jewish” or “Christian,” without that necessarily making him a disbeliever or an open sinner.

Muslim likewise relates in his Ṣaḥīḥ, through Nāfiʿ ibn Jubayr ibn Muṭʿim from Ibn ʿAbbās—may Allah be pleased with them both—that the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said: “The most detested people to Allah are three: one who commits sacrilege in the Sacred Precinct, one who seeks within Islam a custom …”