Remembering the Prophet’s (s.a.w.) Birthday: An Act Scholars Have Accepted & Still Accept

بِسۡمِ ٱللهِ ٱلرَّحۡمَـٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ

Remembering the Prophet’s (s.a.w.) birthday is an act that the scholars of Islam have accepted and still accept.  This means that Allah (s.w.t.) Accepts it, according to the saying of Sayyidina Abu ‘Abd ar-Rahman ‘Abdullah ibn Mas’ud (r.a.): “Whatever the Muslims see as right, then it is good to Allah (s.w.t.), and whatever is seen by the Muslims as evil, it is evil to Allah (s.w.t.).” 

This hadits was recorded by Imam Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Hanbal (r.a.); Imam Abu ‘Abdullah Muhammad ibn ‘Abdullah al-Hakim an-Nishaburi, in his Swahih; Imam Abu Dawud Sulayman ibn Dawud ath-Thayalisi (r.a.), in his Musnad; Imam Abu al-Qasim Sulayman ibn Ayyub ath-Thabarani (r.a.); Imam Abu Bakr Ahmad ibn ‘Amr al-Bazzar (r.a.), in his Musnad; Imam Abu Nu’aym Ahmad ibn ‘Abdullah al-Aswbahani (r.a.); Imam Abu Muhammad al-Husayn ibn Mas’ud al-Baghawi (r.a.); and Imam Abu Bakr Ahmad ibn Husayn al-Bayhaqi (r.a.), in his Kitab al-I‘itiqad wa al-Hidayah ila Sabil ar-Rashad .  How then can someone declare the belief of the vast majority of Muslims a bid’ah adh-dhalalah, a reprehensible innovation?