Saying “Jumu’ah Mubarak” (Blessed Friday) is a Bid’ah (Innovation) — His Eminence, the Great Scholar Shaykh Salih Al-Fawzan (may Allah preserve him)
Introducing newly invented matters into the religion (i.e., Bid’ahs / innovations) is something the beloved Prophet ﷺ severely warned and cautioned this Ummah against in his Khutbat al-Ḥājah (The Sermon of Need). In that sermon, he ﷺ stated: (فإنَّ خيرَ الحديثِ كتابُ اللهِ وخيرَ الهديِ هديُ محمدٍ صلَّى اللهُ عليهِ وسلَّمَ وشرَّ الأمورِ محدثاتُها وكلَّ…