Praying in the Mosque of people of Bid'ah

Qn.6: We are a small group of Salafis in Denmark and in our city we have a few mosques and most of them are far from where we are. There is one mosque that Muslims from different nationalities attend however it is run by some Takfiriyoon and Qutbiyoon and many of the general people attend this masjid. But in nearly every khutbah, they make takfeer of the rulers and speak bad of our scholars. There is another mosque where the people are Ahnaf (from the Hanafee madhab), there are no Takfirees there but there are the people who are upon innovations, extremism and Sufiyyah. Which masjid should we pray with?

Ans.6: If these Hanafees have innovations which take them outside the fold of Islam such as believing that, ‘We are all a part of Allaah’, ‘Allaah is everywhere’, ‘We’ve become a part of Allaah’ or they practise shirk such as supplicating to others than Allaah, and seeking refuge in other than Allaah, or asking for help other than Allaah then you must not pray behind them. Rather, you may pray behind the Qutbiyeen until Allaah makes a way for you to have a masjid for the Salafiyoon or that Allaah makes a way for you to get the means to get to a masjid where there are Salafees since you mentioned that they were 5 kilometres away or so. However, if the innovations of the Hanafees do not take them out of the fold of Islam such as blind following to their madhab or such that keep them Muslims, then it would be better for you to pray behind the Hanafees as long as it is as mentioned above until Allaah ‘Azza wa Jal makes a way out for you.
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