The Approach of Imam Muslim in Narrating about those who were Accused of Bid'a (Heresy)

Abstract Since Imam Muslim has narrated from those who were accused of Bid'a (Means to bring about something that has not been brought originally by Islam, Heresy), then this issue could be used as a tool to question his book "Sahih Muslim". Therefore, it was necessary to address those narrators and identify the way that Imam Muslim has adopted to document their narrations, in addition to tracking them and their narrations, highlighting the reality of their Bid'a and the extent to which their narrations have been affected by what they have been accused of. The researcher has divided the study into four chapters, a preface and a conclusion. In the preface, the researcher defined Imam Muslim and his book "Sahih Muslim", in addition to defining Bid'a and the different approaches of scholars in narrating from people who were accused of Bid'a. The rest of the chapters were divided according to the type of the Bid'a. The first chapter addressed the narrators who were accused of Shiism. The second chapter talked about the narrators accused of the type of Bid'a related to the acts of God, while the third chapter discussed the narrators accused of Irja' Bid'a (Irja' means that it is not bad to have a sin along with faith). In the fourth chapter the researcher discussed the narrators accused of Khawarij opinion, while in the fifth chapter the researcher addressed the narrators accused of deception. In the end of his research, the researcher concluded that Imam Muslim did not narrate that much from those who were accused of Bid'a, and that half of the narrators have been proved innocent from Bid'a, while the others did not prove as having Bid'a in a certain way because the scholars have narrated their accusation of Bid'a without clarifying the reasons of this accusation. The researcher has also explained that the majority of these narrators have met the conditions of narration acceptance. The issue of Bid'a has no significance in the narration of the narrator because what Imam Muslim has produced did not occur in the context of Bid'a. In fact, Imam Muslim has narrated in areas that go against Bid'a, and even when Imam Muslim gave narrations that support Bid'a he immediately gave narrations of narrators who were not accused of Bid'a, except one narration which scholars considered against Imam Muslim.