Title: Asalamualaikum Q-Is it permissible or bidat when you meet a muslim or write a letter to say or write the word salaams for short instead of Assalamualaikum?

Question: Asalamualaikum Q-Is it permissible or bidat when you meet a muslim or write a letter to say or write the word salaams for short instead of Assalamualaikum?

Answer ID: 14705Posted on: Sep 1, 2020

Bismillah hir-Rahman nir-Rahim !

(Fatwa: 1381/1129=D/1430)

Greeting with Assalamu Alaikum is sunnah, it is bad to be habitual of greeting with any other form of greeting. Saying only ?salam? is not bid?ah (innovation) rather it is against sunnah.