Hadith #3064

Arabic Text

English Translation

Umar ibn Abd al-Aziz said: 'Stop where the people stopped, for they stopped only after full knowledge, and they had deeper insight and were more capable of uncovering truth than you. If guidance had been in what you know, you would have preceded them to it. And if you say: something came after them, no one introduced that into the Sunnah except one who opposed the guidance and renounced the Sunnah. They had said enough and described sufficiently. What is above them is excess, and what is below them is deficiency. Some people fell short of them and went to extremes, and some overstepped them and went to excess; and they were between that, on a straight path.'