The Imām, Abū ʿUthmān al-Sābūnī (d. 449H) (رحمه الله) said: "And the characteristics [resulting] from [the effects of] innovations upon their people are obvious and manifestly clear. The most apparent of their signs and characteristics is the severity of their enmity and hatred towards the carriers of the narrations of the Prophet (صلى الله عليه وسلم), their disdain of them, their scorn of them..." Read the PDF