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Benefits For The Later Generations
EPISODE 2️⃣8️⃣
2️⃣4️⃣1️⃣ Imaam Ahmad Ibn Hanbal said:
“These hadeeth should be left as they are . . . We affirm them and we do not make any similitude for them. This is what has been agreed upon by the scholars.”
[Manaaqib Imaam Ahmad, of Ibn al-jawzee, Pp. 155-156]
2️⃣4️⃣2️⃣ Imaam Aboo Haneefah (d. 150 AH) said:
“The Qur’aan is the speech (Kalaam) of Allaah, written in the mus-hafs, preserved in the hearts, recited by the tongues, and revealed to the Prophet (ﷺ),”
[Fiqh al-Akbar]
And in another place he mentions more specifically that: “. . . The Quraan is not created . . .”
[Fiqh al-Akbar, 301]
2️⃣4️⃣3️⃣ Imaam Maalik (d. 179 A.H.) was asked concerning one who says that the Qur’aan is created, what should be done to him. He replied:
“He should be forced to repent, and if he refuses, then his head should be cut off!”
[Al-Laalikaa’ee, 494]
2️⃣4️⃣4️⃣ Imaam Ash-Shaafi’ee (d. 204 A.H.) stated:
“Whoever states that the Qur’aan is created is a disbeliever.”
[Al-Khamees, p.14]
2️⃣4️⃣5️⃣ Imaam Ahmad ibn Hambal (d. 241 A.H.) stated:
“It has been narrated from many of our Salaf that they used to say, ‘The Qur’aan is the Kalaam of Allaah, and it is not created.’ This is also what I believe . . .”
[As-Sunnah of ‘Abdullaah Ibn Ahmad, 108]
2️⃣4️⃣6️⃣ Imaam Az-Zuhree (d. 124H) said:
“The people of knowledge who came before us used to say, ‘Salvation lies in clinging to the sunnah.’”
[Ad-Daarimee, 96]
2️⃣4️⃣7️⃣ Imaam Maalik (d. 179H) said:
“The sunnah is like the ark of Noah. Whoever embarks upon it reaches salvation and whoever refuses is drowned.”
[Majmoo’ Al-Fataawee 4/57]
2️⃣4️⃣8️⃣ Muhammad Ibn Sireen said:
“There were people who abandoned knowledge and sitting with the scholars, and [instead] took to their chambers and prayed until their skin dried [from exertion in worship]. Thereafter they began to contradict the Sunnah and thus were destroyed. By Allaah, never does a person act without knowledge, except that he spoils and corrupts more than he fixes and rectifies.”
[Al-Asbahaanee, Al-Targheeb Wa Al-Tarheeb 3:98]
2️⃣4️⃣9️⃣ Aboo Darda said:
“Indeed my greatest fear concerning standing on the Day of Judgement is that it will be said to me: You have learned, hence what have you done with your knowledge?!”
[Jaami’ Bayaan al ‘Ilm Wa Fadlih, #647]
2️⃣5️⃣0️⃣ Ibn Abi Dunya wrote:
“Abdullaah said, ‘It has been narrated to us on the authority of some wise men that tawakkal (reliance on Allaah) has three stages: Firstly, not complaining, secondly, being content and thirdly, loving it (by firmly believing that Allaah always decrees what is best for His creation).’”
[Tawakkal ‘Ala Allaah, 1/47]
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