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Benefits For The Later Generations
EPISODE 2️⃣5️⃣
2️⃣1️⃣1️⃣ Imaam Ahmad said to Al-Mu’tasim during the days of his trial:
“I am not a person of argumentation or theological rhetoric. I am only a person of narrations and reports.”
[Al-Mihnah, by Hanbal Ibn Is-haaq, p. 54]
2️⃣1️⃣2️⃣ Aboo Anas Hamad Al-’Uthmaan said:
“The evil of the Jews and Christians is open and clear to the common Muslims; as for the people of innovation, then their harm is not clear to every person . . .’ This is why the Scholars see that to refute the people of innovation takes precedence over refuting the Jews and Christians.”
[Zajarul Mutahawwin, p. 96]
2️⃣1️⃣3️⃣ Imaam Ahmad said:
“Whoever indulges in theological rhetoric will become a failure. Moreover, indulging in theological rhetoric will lead one to become like the jahmiyyah.”
[As-Sunnah p. 235]
2️⃣1️⃣4️⃣ Imaam Ahmad said:
“Verily a person of theological rhetoric will never succeed, ever. You will never see anyone studying theological rhetoric, except that there is a corruption in his heart.”
[As-Sunnah, p. 235]
2️⃣1️⃣5️⃣ Imaam Ahmad said:
“Do not sit with the people of theological rhetoric, even if they defend the sunnah.”
[Manaaqibul Imaam Ahmad, p. 205]
2️⃣1️⃣6️⃣ Imaam Ash-Shaafi’ee said:
“. . . If a man were to include in his will that another man should get his books of knowledge after his death, and amongst them were books containing theological rhetoric, then the books of theological rhetoric could not be included in that, since they are not (books of) knowledge.”
[Thammul Kalaam, q/213]
2️⃣1️⃣7️⃣ Imaam Ash-Shaafi’ee said:
“If I wanted to, I could have written a large book against every opponent. However theological rhetoric is not my kind of thing, and I do not like that anything from it (theological rhetoric) should be attributed to me.”
[Thammul Kalaam, q/213]
2️⃣1️⃣8️⃣ Imaam Ash-Shaafi’ee said:
“If Allaah puts a man to trial by causing him to do every prohibited thing, except ascribing partners to Allaah, then this is better than Allaah putting him to trial by misleading him into theological rhetoric.”
[Manaaqibush Shaafi’ee p. 182]
2️⃣1️⃣9️⃣ Imaam Maalik said:
“Even if a man commits all of the major sins, except for shirk with Allaah, and refrains from all these desires and innovations . . .” (And from them he mentioned theological rhetoric) “. . . He shall enter paradise.”
[Al-Hilyah (6/325)]
2️⃣2️⃣0️⃣ Imaam Maalik said:
“Whoever seeks knowledge through theological rhetoric will deviate. Whoever seeks wealth through alchemy will become bankrupt. Whoever seeks after strange narrations will become a liar.”
[Thammul Kalaam (q/173/a)]
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