Ibn Taymiyya (d. 728 H. i Damaskus)

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Ibn Taymiyya's Grave, near Baramkeh, Syria inside Damascus University campus and behind a maternity hospital.

When the Sufi cemetery was razed by Syrian Wahhabis to make way for the University of Damascus and its campus in that city - King Abd al-Aziz Ibn Sa`ud of Saudi Arabia intervened personally to preserve intact the graves and tombs of Ibn Taymiyya and his student Ibn Kathir.

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Översikt med referenser
http://www.correctislamicfaith.com/ibnt ... eliefs.htm

Ibn Taymiyya by Dr. G.F. Haddad
http://www.sunnah.org/history/Innovator ... ymiyya.htm

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Ett privat brev från al-Hadizh al-Dhahabi till Ibn Taymiyya, känt som


Brevet har bevarats som en handskrift av Qadi Shuhba (d. 851 H), en känd historiker och författare av biografier över senare generations Shafi'i lärda, vars isnad till Imam al-Dhahabi går genom Qadi Burhan ibn Jama'a (d. 790 H), från Hafiz Abu Sa'eed al-Alai'e (d. 761 H), från al-Hafiz al-Dhahabi. Brevet finns bevrat i Dar al-Kutub al Misriyya (no. 18823), Cairo, Egypt, och i al-Maktaba al-Zahiriyya (no. 1347), Damascus, Syria. Imam Zahid al-Kawthari (d. 1371 H.) kopierade det och publicerade det i sin bok "Bayan Zaghal al-'Ilm" år 1327 H.

Brevet omnämns även i "al-I'lan bi-Tawbikh" av al-Hafizh al-Sakhawi (d. 902 H.), som var elev till ibn Hajar al-´Asqalani (d. 852 H). Båda var elever till al-Dhahabi's son Abu Hurayah.

Nedanståenden översättning finns på
http://www.masud.co.uk/ISLAM/misc/dhahabi.htm

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In the Name of Allah Most Merciful and Compassionate.

Praise be to Allah for my lowliness. O Lord, have mercy on me, diminish my mistakes, and preserve my Iman for me. What sadness at my lack of sadness; what sorrow over the sunna and the departure of its people; what longing for believing brothers to share with me in weeping; what grief over the loss of people who were light-giving lamps of Sacred Knowledge, men of taqwa, and treasure-troves of every good; alas for not finding a dirhem that is halaal or a brother who is loving.

Great good tidings to him whose own faults divert him from those of others, and woe to whom the faults of others divert him from his own.

How long will you see the speck in your brother's eye and forget the log in your own? How long will you praise yourself, your prattle, your style, while blaming religious scholars and searching out people's shameful points, knowing as you do that the Prophet (Allah bless him and give him peace) forbade it saying:

"Mention not your dead save with good, for they have gone onto what they have sent ahead."

Of course, I realise that you will defend yourself by telling me the attacks are only for those who've never smelled the scent of Islam and don't know what Muhammad (Allah bless him and give him peace) brought and that is your jihad. Not so, by Allah those who you attack know what is even better than the amount that suffices if the servant acts on it to make him succeed. Moreover, they are ignorant of a great deal that does not concern them. And "the excellence of a person’s Islam includes leaving what does not concern him." By Allah man! Give us respite from you, for you are an eloquent polemicist who neither rests nor sleeps. Beware of doubt-creating, problematic religious questions. Our Prophet (Allah bless him and give him peace) was offended by too many questions, found fault with them, and forbade excessive asking. He also said:

"The thing I fear most for my people is the eloquent hypocrite."

Too much talking, if free of mistakes, hardens the heart when it concerns the halaal and haraam. So how should it be when it concerns the words of the Yunusiyya, the philosophers, and expressions of kufr, which make hearts go blind? By Allah, we've become a laughing stock in existence. How long will you disinter the details of philosophical expressions of kufr for us to refute with our minds? You've swallowed, man, the poison of the philosophers and of their works more than once; and by too much using of a poison one's constitution gets addicted. It collects, by Allah, in the body.

O, what longing for a group among whom the Qur'an is recited with reflection, where awe is experienced through its meditation, where there is silence from its contemplation. O, what longing for an assembly where the pious are mentioned, for mercy descends where the righteous people are remembered, not where the righteous are spoken of with contempt and curses. The sword of al-Hajjaj and the tongue of Ibn Hazm were brothers [ie no Muslims was safe from them], and now you have joined the family. By Allah, give us a break from talking about "the bid`a of Thursday", and "eating the grains", and rather make a serious effort to remember the bid`as we used to consider the source of all misguidance, which have now become the "genuine sunna" and the "basis of tawhid", and whoever doesn't know them is a Kafir, or a donkey, and whoever doesn't call him a Kafir is a bigger Kafir than Pharaoh. You consider the very Christians like us.

By Allah, there are misgivings in hearts. You are fortunate if your faith in the two shahadahs has remained unscathed. Oh the disappointment of him who follows you, for he is exposed to corruption in basic beliefs and to dissolution. Particularly if he is short of learning and religion, a self-indulgent idler who does well for you by fighting on your behalf with his hand and tongue, while he is actually your enemy in his being and heart. What are your followers but hidebound do-nothings of little intelligence, common liars with dull minds, silent outlanders strong in guile, or dryly righteous without understanding? If you don't believe it, just look at them and honestly assess them.

The donkey of your lusts, O Muslim, has stepped forward to applaud your self. How long will you dote on your ego and attack the finest people? How long will you credit it, and disdain the pious? How long will you exalt it, and despise the devotees? How long will you be its closest friend, and detest the abstinent? How long will you praise your own words in a manner you do not even use for the Sahihs of Bukhari and Muslim? Would that the hadiths of the two Sahihs were safe from you, as you continually attack them, by suggesting weakness, considering them fair game, or with figurative explanations and denial. Hasn't the time come to give up? Is it not it time to repent and atone? Aren't you at that tenth of a man's life when he reaches seventy years and the final departure has drawn near? Indeed, By Allah, I don't recall that you remember death much. You sneer at whoever remembers death. So I don't think you'll take to my words or hear my exhortation. You will, instead, probably show great energy and concern to demolish this piece of paper with weighty volumes, snipping off the ends of my sentences for me until you gain the upper hand and can close the argument with a triumphant "...at all. And he was silent."

If this is how you stand in my eyes, and I am someone sympathetic to you, fond and affectionate, how do you think you stand with your enemies? By Allah among your enemies, there are the righteous and intelligent men and virtuous ones, just as among your friends there are the wicked, liars, ignoramuses, layabouts, the vile, and cattle.

I can accept that you should publicly disparage me, while secretly benefiting from what I have said. "May Allah have mercy on the man who shows me my faults" [words attributed to `Umar (Allah be pleased with him)]. For I have many faults and sins, and woe to me if I myself do not repent, and how enormous my disgrace from Him who knows the Hidden. The sole remedy for me is the forgiveness of Allah and His clemency, His giving success and His guidance.

Praise be to Allah, Lord of the worlds. Allah bless our lieglord Muhammad, the Last of the Prophets, his folk and companions one and all.

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Amin.

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om Ibn Taymiyyah
From: Nuh Keller: Reliance of the Traveller

Ibn Taymiya is Ahmad Ibn Abd al-Salaam ibn Abdullah, Abu al-Abbas Taqi
al-Din ibn Taymiya al-Harrani, born in Harran, east of Damascus, in
661/1263. A famous Hanbali scholar in Qur'anic exegesis (tafsir),
hadith and jurisprudence, Ibn Taymiya was a voracious reader and
author of great personal courage who was endowed with a compelling
writing style and a keen memory. Dhahabi wrote of him, "I never saw
anyone faster at recalling the Qur'anic verses dealing with subjects
he was discussing, or anyone who could remember hadith texts more
vividly." Dhahabi estimates that his legal opinions on various
subjects amount to three-hundred or more volumes.

He was imprisoned during much of his life in Cairo, Alexandria, and
Damascus for his writings, scholars of his time accusing him of
believing Allah to be a corporeal entity because of what he mentioned
in his al-aqida al-Hamawiyya and al-Wasitiyya and other works, such as
that Allah's 'hand', 'foot', 'shin' and 'face' are literal (haqiqi)
attributes, and that He is upon the Throne in person. The error in
this is suggesting such attributes are literal is an innovation and
unjustifiable inferance from the Qur'anic and hadith texts that
mention them, for the way of early Muslims was mere acceptance of such
expressions on faith without saying how they are meant, and without
additions, subtractions, or substituting meanings imagined to be
synonyms, while acknowledging Allah's absolute transcedence beyond the
characteristics of created things, in conformity with the Qur'anic
verse "There is nothing whatsoever like unto him" [Qur'an 42:11]. As
for figurative interpretations that preserve the divine transcendence,
scholars of tenents of faith have only had recourse to them in times
when men of reprehensible innovation (bid'a), quoting hadiths and
Qur'anic verses, have caused confusion in the minds of common Muslims
as to whether Allah has attributes like those of His creation or
whether He is transcendently beyond any image conceivable to the minds
of men. Scholars' firmness in condemning those who have raised such
confusions has traditionally been very uncompromising, and this is no
doubt the reason that a number of the Imams of the Shafi'i school,
among them Taqi al-Din Subki, Ibn Hajar Haytami and al-Izz ibn Jama'a,
gave formal legal opinions (fatawa) that Ibn Taymiya was misguided and
misguiding in tenents of faith, and warned people from accepting his
theories. The Hanafi scholar Muhammad Zahid al-Kawthari has written
"Whoever thinks that all the scholars of his time joined in a single
conspiracy against him from personal envy should rather impugn their
own intelligence and understanding, after studying the repugnance of
his deviations in beliefs and works, for which he was asked to repent
time after time and moved from prison to prison until he passed on to
what he'd sent ahead."

While few deny that Ibn Taymiya was a copious and eloquent writer and
hadith scholar, his career, like that of others, demonstrates that a
man may be outstanding in one field and yet suffer from radical
deficiencies in another, the most reliable index of which is how a
field's Imams regard his work in it. By this measure, indeed, by the
standards of all previous Ahl al-Sunnah scholars, it is clear that
despite voluminous and influential written legacy, Ibn Taymiya cannot
be considered an authority on tenents of faith (aqueeda), a field in
which he made mistakes profoundly incompatible with the beliefs of
Islam, as also with a number of his legal views that violated the
scholarly consensus (ijma) of Sunni Muslims. It should be remembered
that such matters are not the province of personal reasoning (ijtihad),
whether Ibn Taymiya considered them to be so out of sincere conviction,
or whether simply because, as Imam Subki said, "his learning exceeded
his intelligence." He died in Damascus in 728/1328.

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BismiAllah
Compiled by
Sh. G. F. Haddad
http://www.livingislam.org/n/itay_e.html

Introduction
Ah.mad ibn `Abd al-H.alîm ibn `Abd Allâh ibn Abî al-Qâsim ibn Taymiyya, Taqî al-Dîn Abû al-`Abbâs ibn Shihâb al-Dîn ibn Majd al-Dîn al-H.arrânî al-Dimashqî al-H.anbalî (661-728) was one of the most influential scholars of the late H.anbalî school, praised by the h.adîth Master S.alâh. al-Dîn al-`Alâ'î as:

"Our shaykh, master, and Imâm between us and Allâh Almighty, the master of verification, the wayfarer of the best path, the owner of the multifarious merits and overpowering proofs which all hosts agree are impossible to enumerate, the Shaykh, the Imâm and faithful servant of his Lord, the doctor in the Religion, the Ocean, the light-giving Pole of spirituality, the leader of Imâms, the blessing of the Community, the sign-post of the people of knowledge, the inheritor of Prophets, the last of those capable of independent legal reasoning, the most unique of the scholars of the Religion, Shaykh al-Islâm..."

Chapters:
He Was Mostly Self-Taught
His Principal Students
Divided Opinions Concerning Him
Al-Dhahabî's Synopsis of His Case
"He was very learned but lacked intelligence"
Fatwâ Attributing Direction to Allâh Most High
His Several Imprisonments
His Equivocations Under Interrogation
Al-T.ûfî's Summary of the Charges Brought Against Him
His Former Admiration of Ibn `Arabî
His S.ûfi Affiliation With the Qâdirî T.arîqa
His Innovative Nullification of Multiple Divorce
His Innovative Prohibition of Travel to Visit the Holy Prophet
The H.anbalî Rejection of His Fatwâ
Shaykh al-Islâm al-Subkî's Rejection of His Fatwa
Shaykh al-Islâm al-Zayn al-`Irâqî's Rejection of His Fatwa
Shaykh al-Islâm Ibn H.ajar's Rejection of His Fatwa
H.âfiz. al-S.afadî's Rejection of His Fatwa
H.âfiz. al-Qârî's Rejection of His Fatwa
Imâm al-Khafâjî's Rejection of His Fatwa
Ibn `Abd al-Hâdî Fanatic Defense of His Teacher
The h.adîth "Whoever visits my grave, my intercession will be guaranteed for him"
C/f the category of "Ibn Taymiyya and his followers" on this issue
His Final Repentence
His Abandonment by His Former Admirers
His Revival of Ibn H.azm's Vicious Style
His Excessive Involvement in Kalâm and Philosophy
Al-Dhahabî's Bayân Zaghl al-`Ilm and His Nas.îh.a to Ibn Taymiyya
Al-Subkî's Summary of Ibn Taymiyya's Deviations in Doctrine
Al-Haytamî's Summary His Deviations in `Aqîda, Us.ûl, and Fiqh
Al-Kawtharî's Scathing Exposure of His Anthropomorphism
His Denial of the Eternality of Hellfire
His Invention of a Double or Triple Tawh.îd
Al-Tubbânî's Refutation of His Multiple Tawh.îds
His Verbose Methodology in Disputation
His Climbing Down the Pulpit to Illustrate the Divine Descent
The Revival of His Teachings by the Wahhâbî Movement
Recent Literature
Footnotes
http://www.livingislam.org/n/itay_e.html

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Repentance of Ibn Taymiyah (705)

http://www.marifah.net/forums/topic/546 ... -taymiyya/

Ibn Taymiyah's repentance written by his hand:

“Praise to Allah, my belief is that al-Qur’an is one Attribute of the Attributes of the eternal Self of Allah and is not created. It is not a letter and not a sound. It does not settle in any creation, or paper, or ink, or something else.

I believe in the saying of Allah: "الرحمن على العرش استوى" “Ar-Rahmanu `ala-l-`Arsh-i-stawaa” (Taha 5) explained according to the saying of the [Sunni] group attending this hearing. It is not understood according to its ‘haqiqah’ and apparent meaning. I don’t know its reality, only Allah knows the reality of that. The saying about an-Nuzul resembles the saying about al-Istiwa’. I say about the former what I say about the latter. I don’t know its reality, only Allah knows the reality of that. It is not understood according to its ‘haqiqah’ and apparent meaning, as the group attending this hearing said. Anything that contradicts this belief is false and anything I wrote or said which contradicts that is false. Any part of its content that accuses others with misguidance or attributes to Allah what is not befitting to Allah, I hereby clear myself of it and to Allah repent from what disagree with it.

Written by Ahmad bin Taymiyah on Thursday the six of Rabi` al-‘Akhir 705; Everything I wrote and documented in this paper, I said it willingly without compulsion. Written by Ahmad bin Taymiyah. Hasbuna Allah wa ni`ma al-Wakil .”


• On the top of that, the head judge Badr ad-Din bin Jama`ah wrote: “He testified in my presence; all that he wrote was by his own hand on the specified date.”

• At the footnote of the handwriting: “He testified all that which he wrote by his hand. Written by `Abdul Ghaniyy bin Muhammad al-Hanbaliyy.”

• Following the handwriting of Ibn Taymiyah, there are some testifications. Here is a copy of it: “The aforementioned wrote by his hand the above material in my presence and testified its content. Written by Ibn ar-Ruf`ah.”

• A copy of another handwriting: “He admitted that. Written by `Abdul `Aziz an-Nimrawiyy.”

• A copy of handwriting: “He admitted all of that on the date listed. `Aliyy bin Muhammad bin Khattab al-Bajiyy ash-Shafi`iyy.”

• Another copy of handwriting: “This occurred in my presence on the date listed. Written by al-Hasan bin Ahmad bin Muhammad al-Husayniyy.”

• In the footnote, it is written: “The aforementioned wrote by his hand and testified. Written by `Abdullah bin Jama`ah.”

• Another copy of handwriting: “He admitted that and wrote it in my presence, Muhammad bin `Uthman al-Burijibiyy”

All those individuals are from the great scholars during that era. Ibn ar-Ruf`ah alone authored al-Matlab al-`Aliy fi Sharh Wasit al-Ghazaliyy in 40 volumes.

After Ibn Taymiyah wrote the statements by his hand, the head judge al-Badr Ibn Jama`ah stamped his handwriting by the noble mark and a group of the scholars witnessed that. That document was kept in al-Malkiyyah an-Nasiriyyah library



[Najm al-Muhtadiyy documented this statement with the signatures of the scholars who signed it. Ibn Hajar conveyed the record in ad-Durar also but the date he documented was 15th Rabi` al-Awwal 707.]
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Their will come leaders who will not follow my guidance and not follow my Sunnah. Their will be among them men who will have hearts of devils in the bodies of humans. He (the companion of the prophet) asked, "what shall I do, O messenger of Allah, if I reach that?" He replied, "you should hear and obey the ruler even if he flogs your back and takes your wealth, then still hear and obey."
(Saheeh Muslim)

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Ibn Hajr al-‘Asqalån offers these remarks about Shaykh
al-Islam Ibn Taymiyyah:

“Those of his stances that were objectionable were not
said by him out of mere caprice. Nor did he obstinately
or deliberately persist in them after the proof was established
to him. For here are his works overflowing with
replies to those who held the belief of tajs•m; that Allah
is a corporeal body, yet despite this, he was a man who
made mistakes and was also correct. So that which he
is correct in - which is the majority - is to benefited from
and Allah’s mercy should be invoked for him due to it.
As for what he erred in, it cannot be blindly followed.
Indeed, he is excused for his mistakes since he was one
of the Imams of his age and it has been witnessed about
him that he fulfilled the conditions of ijtihåd.”

Cited in Ibn Nåßir al-D•n al-Dimashq•, al-Radd al-Wåfir, 245
http://web.mac.com/jawziyyah/The_Jawziy ... bi%202.pdf

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What Do The Scholars Say About Ibn Taymiyya?
http://qa.sunnipath.com/issue_view.asp? ... 51&CATE=22
Answered by Shaykh Muhammad ibn Adam al-Kawthari