1) The Salaf, warn from associating and mixing with the People of Desires and Innovators (thread). Reference to the websites which gather all these statements will be in one of the last tweets:

Side note: these generally refer to, heads of Ahlul-bidah, the stubborn mubtadi'

2) or the stubborn sunni who refuses to abandon ahl-bida'h if there is benefit (refer to last tweet of ulema for further info as this thread is not on this issue)

All Quotes are from Ibn Battah (D.387AH) book titled, لإبانة عن شريعة الفرقة الناجية ومجانبة الفرق المذمومة

3) from numbers 359-524:

Bismillah,

- Abu Qilābah (d. 104H) who said: “Do not sit with the People of Desires, for indeed I fear they will immerse you in their misguidance, or they will deceive you concerning some of what you know [to be the truth].”

4) - ‛Amr Ibn Qais who said: “It used to be said [in the past]: Do not sit with the person of deviation for he will deviate your heart.”
- Ibn Abbās (d. 68H), who said: “Do not sit with the People of Desires, for their gatherings are a sickness for the hearts.”

5) - Al-Hasan Al-Basri (d.110H) said: “Do not sit with the people of desires for their gatherings are a sickness for the hearts.”
- Hasan and Ibn Sīrīn (d.110H)they said: “Do not sit with the people of desires,and do not argue with them and do not listen to narrations from them.”

6) - “Two men from Ahlul-Ahwā came to Ibn Sīrīn and said: ‘O Abu Bakr, we wish to talk to you about some matters.’He replied: ‘No.’
They said:‘Then shall we recite a verse from Allāh’s Book to you?’
Ibn Sirin: "No!Either you will get up and leave or I shall get up and leave!’”

7)- A man from the People of Desires said to Ayyūb As-Sakhtiyānī (d. 131H): “O Abu Bakr! I would like to ask you about a word.”

Ayyūb replied whilst illustrating with his index finger: “Not even half a word! Not even half a word!”

Yahyā Ibn Saʽīd Al-Qattān (d. 198H) said:

8) “When Sufyān Ath-Thawrī (d. 161H) entered Basra he started to look into the affair of Ibn Subayh and his station with people. So he asked: “What is his creed?”
They replied: “His creed is not except the Sunnah.”
So he asked: “Who are his associates?”
They said: “The people

9) - who deny the Pre-Decree (Ahlul-Qadr).”
Sufyan Thawri said: “Then he is a Qadarī.”

- Fudail Ibn ‛Iyād (d. 187H) said: “The souls are like gathered troops; those that were [created to be] acquainted with each other will come together [in this world]; those that were [created

10) - be] averse to each other will differ and oppose one another [in this world].
So it is not possible for a person of Sunnah to incline towards a person of bid‛ah except due to hypocrisy.”
Ibn Battah said:
“Fudail has spoken the truth, may Allāh’s mercy be upon him, for we

11)have witnessed that with our very own eyes.”
- “It was said to Al-Awzā’ī (d. 157H): ‘A man says: I sit with Ahlus-Sunnah and with Ahlul-Bid‛ah.’
Al-Awzā’ī responded: ‘This man wants to unite truth and falsehood.’”
- Muslim Ibn Yasār who said: “Do not give a person of bid‛ah

12) access to your hearing so he pours into it that which you have no ability to remove from your heart [afterwards].”
- Ibn Al-Mubārak (d. 181H) said to me: “Make your gatherings with the poor and needy, and beware of sitting with a person of bid‛ah.”

13) The Following are quotes from شرح أصول اعتقاد أهل" "السنة والجماعة
of Imam Lalaka'ee narration numbers 231 to 313:

14) - Abul-Jawzā (d. 83H) who said: “That apes and pigs are my neighbours is more beloved to me than having one of them as my neighbour,” meaning: the people of desires [and misguidance]. (because animals wont harm you but ahlul bidah will take you to Jahannam with their bida'h

15)- Thābit Ibn ‛Ajlān, who said: “I reached Anas Ibn Mālik, Ibn Musayyib (d. 94H), Hasan Al-Basrī (d.110H), Sa‛īd Ibn Jubair (d. 95H), Ash-Sha‛bī, Ibrāhīm An-Nakha‛ī (d. 96H), ‛Atā Ibn Abī Rabāh (d. 114H), Tāwūs (d. 106H), Mujāhid (d. 104H), ‛Abdullāh Ibn Abī Mulaikah (d. 117H)

16) - Az-Zuhrī (d. 124H), Mak-hūl (d. 112H), Al-Qāsim Abū ‛Abdur-Rahmān, ‛Atā Al-Khurasānī (d. 135H), Thābit Al-Bunānī (d. 120H), Al-Hakam Ibn ‛Utbah, Ayyūb As-Sakhtiyānī (d. 131H), Hammād, Muhammad Ibn Sīrīn (d. 110H)

17) - Abū ‛Āmir – and he reached Abū Bakr As-Siddīq, Yazīd Ar-Raqāshī (d. 119H) and Sulaymān Ibn Mūsā: ‘All of them commanded me to stick to the Jamā‛ah and they all forbade me from the People of Desires.’”

So all of these twelve scholars and eighty-two other scholars: their

18) statements were gathered by Imām Al-Lālikā’ī in clarification of the methodology of the Salaf and their stances towards Ahlul-Bidʽah and Ahlul-Ahwā’.

19) References:

Arabic: Shaykh Rabi's Risalah: http://majalissbiskra.com/ تحذير-أهل-السنة-السلفيين-من-مجالسة-ومخ/

English: Shaykh Abu Khadeejah's Translation: https://www.abukhadeejah.com/ahlus-sunnah-the-salafis-warn-from-associating-and-mixing-with-the-people-of-desires-the-innovators-by-ash-shaikh-al-allamah-rabee-al-madkhalee/

These quotes many of them ive verified personally from the books themselves through my studies

20) if you have benefitted please share so it can be sadaqah jariyah for us and to spread da'wah to salafiyyah barakAllahu feekum.

Refer to how ulema explain these statements to further benefit and understand how to apply them: below for further links as to explanations:

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- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLsa2o_GuSYF9ysDxs-9Sdexl8XhSb9svj

and many more for any seeker of haqq.