Hadith
Abdullah ibn Amr reported the Prophet ﷺ said: “Whoever turns away from my Sunnah is not from me.”
عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ عَمْرٍو قَالَ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ مَنْ رَغِبَ عَنْ سُنَّتِي فَلَيْسَ مِنِّي
Al-Sunnah Li-Ibn Abi ‘Asim 52
Ponder This Hadith
This statement is striking not because it condemns ignorance, but because it addresses choice. The Prophet ﷺ did not say whoever does not know my Sunnah, nor whoever struggles to follow it. Rather, he spoke of the one who deliberately turns away from it.
If abandoning the Sunnah were part of true guidance, why would the Prophet ﷺ warn so strongly against turning away from it?