Two Have Been Afflicted Because of their Followers: Ja'far and Ahmad and some Translated works of Benefit Regarding the Matter of Creed
A neo-Muqatili Hanbali claimant recently wrote:
However, if a person says, ‘I don’t like the madhab of Ahmad and I am free of it’ as many of Jahmis like Abul-Layth do in terms of theology, then surely this would be heresy, sin and lack of respect, etc, but I don’t know if it would amount to apostasy…
This individual wrote these words in response to the recent article posted here that quotes Shaykh ul Islam Ibn Kamal as stating,
ولو قال إني بريء من ومذهب أبي حنيفة رحمه الله عنه أو قال: أنا بريء من مذهب الشافعي يكفر . ومن استحل حراما علم حرمته في دين الإسلام كشرب الخمر فهو كافر
- And if someone were to say, ‘Verily I declare myself free from (بريء – disavowal) the madh-hab of Abu Hanifah or the Madh-hab of Imam Ash-Shafi’i then he has disbelieved…
So this neo-Muqatili self-professed-Hanbali claims that Imam Ahmad’s school is the school that he is upon; the belief that the attributes are to be taken literally, that tafwid is heresy, that any ta’wil is heresy, and that the asha’ris are deviant “Jahmis“. Unfortunately for this individual, the scholars have squelched his creed throughout the ages, branded it heresy, and filled the libraries of the Muslims with thousands of pages of refutations. Some have been translated into English, for the benefit of the western Muslims who may have been bamboozled by the pseudo-salafi propoganda machine. Some of those works include:
The Hanafis at it again: Al-Fiqh Al-Islami of Shaykh Muhammad Nadwi
The Hanafis of the west have done it again. Another thorn in the side of the Hanbali-leaning, though not clinging, pseudo-salafis in fiqh. I predicted Jun 1st of 2007 that the Hanafis would be forced to print manuals in law and creed in order to save their youth from the “dark side” and its sith-like attacks upon their noble madh-hab. Al-Fiqh Al-Islami is a wonderful masterpiece on fiqh, providing the student with a plethora of proofs. Many of the proofs presented in the manual have went untranslated prior to this release. Basically the manual begins with the foundational principles of the Madh-hab (legal guild): Qur’an, Sunnah, Ijma’, Qiyas.
Revamped Downloadables Section
As-Salamu ‘Alaykum brethren,
Alhamdulillah, after a few hours of hard mental labor and finger clicking we have revamped the downloadables section. Currently we have around 15 books we feel are important to the beginning seeker or intermediate learner. Once we decide whose lectures we will be putting up for download, we will send out another post informing the SI readers. If there is content you would like available in the downloadables section feel free to contact us at seekingilm@hotmail.com or just post a comment in this thread. File size does not matter!
Be sure and check back frequently as we will be uploading more material within the next few weeks insha’allah.