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295 — Abū Bakr Abd Allāh ibn Muhammad ibn Abd al-Hamīd al-Wāsitī narrated to us: Zuhayr ibn Muhammad al-Marwazī narrated to us: Muhammad ibn Kathīr narrated to us, from ⦗677⦘ al-Awzāī, from al-Zuhrī, who said: “No innovation introduced into Islam has been more harmful to the religion than this one”—meaning the proponents of irjā (deferral).
٢٩٥ - حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو بَكْرٍ عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عَبْدِ الْحَمِيدِ الْوَاسِطِيُّ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا زُهَيْرُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ الْمَرْوَزِيُّ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ كَثِيرٍ، عَنِ ⦗٦٧٧⦘ الْأَوْزَاعِيِّ، عَنِ الزُّهْرِيِّ قَالَ: " مَا ابْتُدِعَتَ فِي الْإِسْلَامِ بِدْعَةٌ أَضَرُّ عَلَى الْمِلَّةِ مِنْ هَذِهِ يَعْنِي: أَهْلَ الْإِرْجَاءِ "