The Great Hamawiya Fatwa

Description

Book description:

• Author: Ahmad Ibn Taymiyyah

• Study and investigation: Dr. Hamad bin Abdul Mohsen Al-Tuwaijri

• Number of pages: 646 pages

• The subject of the book: An answer and fatwa to a question received by Imam Ahmad Ibn Taymiyyah (may Allah have mercy on him) from Hama

The contents of the book:

Text of the question to the Sheikh

Outline of the Salaf's doctrine on attributes

Ihkamam al-Rasul, may Allah bless him and grant him peace.

The Status of Knowledge of God

The impossibility of the Salaf falling short in the fundamentals and branches of religion

The way of the Salaf is the safest, most knowledgeable and wisest

The origin of the error of those who prefer the way of the caliphs to the way of the salaf

The combination of ignorance and lying

What is meant by successor

Confusion and Doubt are Characteristics of Talkers

• The impossibility of successors being more knowledgeable than predecessors

• Why many latecomers go astray

Evidence of God's transcendence over His creation

• The statement of those who deny the height has no basis in the Qur'an, Sunnah, or from any of the Ummah's predecessors.

• Some of the false implications of the denialists' statement

• Negationists' Approach to the Negation of Attributes

• Naysayers are similar to hypocrites

• Sources of their suspicions

• A return to the invalid implications of the denialists' statement

• The division of the Ummah and the surviving band

• The Origin of the Deactivation Essay

• Influenced by the environment in which he grew up

• The doctrine of the Sabean deniers of God's attributes

• The Imams' denunciation of Bashar al-Marisi and his followers

• Praise for Al-Darmi's book

• The unanimity of the Imams on the denunciation of Marisiyyah

• Some of the books that conveyed the doctrine of the Salaf

• Chapter: An outline of the doctrine of the People of Truth on the attributes of God

• The Salafi doctrine is a middle ground between representation and disruption

• Explaining that disabling is acting and acting is disabling

• Proving God's Exaltation and Leveling

• The Salaf's doctrine is consistent with reason and tradition

• Hermeneutic confusion

• Evidence of the corruption of the hermeneuticists' methodology

• Responding to the People of Interpretation

• The Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) knows and advises the Ummah

Sects Deviating from the Way of the Salaf

The meaning of hermeneutics

• What is meant by the interpretation of attributes

• The Salaf's understanding of the meanings of texts

• The Bad Implications of Ignorantism

Sayings of the Imams on the attributes of Allah

• Not everyone that the Shaykh quoted here says everything that the Sunnis say

• The fatwa does not have the space to present and respond to arguments and opinions

• The Book and the Sunnah contain light and guidance

• There is no conflict between the texts of Ma'ayyah and the texts of Ascension

• God is truly with us and truly above the throne

• The word together in language does not imply touching or alignment

• The meaning of the Salaf's saying: with them with his knowledge

• The use of the word Mu'awiyah in the Qur'an and Sunnah in different places

• The words "God" and "slavery" and the commonality of the two

• Is the word Mu'ayyah a synonym or a common word?

• Meaning that God is in the sky

• Is the appearance of the texts intended or not?

• The Salaf's method differs from that of the Mutakallim

• The Salaf's declaration that God is on his throne

• The consensus of the Salaf on the proof of experiential attributes

• The Jahmiyyah and Mu'tazilites call anyone who proves any of the attributes a mushahabiya

• People of heresy calling Sunnis horrible names

• Calling Ahl al-Sunnah by these titles is evidence of the correct inheritance and full followership

• Some of the False Implications of the People of Heresy

Divisions of people in attribute texts

• The right way to approach the verses and hadiths of the attributes

• The way out for those who are confused

• The reason why many philosophers and speakers go astray in this section

• The state of the middle ground of the people of speech

• Speakers in different words

• Looking at the People of Kalam with the eyes of the Shari'ah and the eyes of destiny

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