Our Shaykh Abū al-Faḍl al-Hamdānī said: The innovators in Islām and the fabricators of ahādīth are worse [in their harm upon religion] than the disbelievers. This is because the disbelievers attempt to corrupt the religion from the outside, whereas these individuals attempt to corrupt it from the inside. They take the similitude of the inhabitants of a land, who strive to corrupt its condition (from the inside), while the disbelievers take the similitude of raiders laying siege to the land from the outside. Thus it is the ones on the inside that open the doors of the land's surrounding barrier (and let the besiegers in). These types (of people) are far worse to Islām than the ones who don't attribute themselves to it.