121—Abd al-Rahman ibn Umar informed us; Muhammad ibn Isma'il ibn Ishaq narrated to us; Ahmad ibn Abd al-Wahhab narrated to us; Abu al-Mughirah narrated to us; Ibn Abi Maryam narrated to us; Habib ibn Ubayd narrated to me, from Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan, that he asked Ghudayf ibn al-Harith about storytelling and raising the hands from the pulpits. Ghudayf said, “They are among the best of the practices you have introduced, yet I will not comply with you regarding either of them, for I was told that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: ‘No community introduces an innovation into its religion except that an equivalent sunnah is lost.’ Thus, holding fast to the sunnah is dearer to me than introducing an innovation.”