Fiqh al-Adiyah wa-al-Adhkar - Abd al-Razzaq ibn Abd al-Muhsin al-Badr - (2/142)

Fiqh al-Adiyah wa-al-AdhkarAbd al-Razzaq ibn Abd al-Muhsin al-Badr

this reasoning and its invalidity. Among those answers are the following:

Allah’s religion is perfect and complete, with no deficiency in it. Allah says, “Today I have perfected your religion for you, completed My favor upon you, and chosen Islam as your religion.”1 Whatever was not part of the religion in the time of our Prophet—may Allah bless him and grant him peace—and his Companions is not part of the religion today, nor will it ever become so before the Hour comes. Allah, Glorious and Exalted, accepts nothing as religion except what is established by His Book and the Sunnah of His Prophet—may Allah bless him and grant him peace. Tales, dreams, stories, and reports are not sources upon which sacred law may be established or religion founded. Shaykh al-Islām Ibn Taymiyya—may Allah have mercy on him—said: “According to the scholars of Islam, the sources to be followed in establishing rulings are the Book of Allah, the Sunnah of His Messenger—may Allah bless him and grant him peace—and the way of the earliest forerunners. Under no circumstances may a religious ruling be established without these three sources, whether by an explicit text or through deduction.”2

No unambiguous verse or authoritative Sunnah has prescribed deliberately seeking to supplicate at graves, nor has any sound report permitting it been transmitted from the three favored generations praised by the Messenger of Allah—may Allah bless him and grant him peace—when he said: “The best of my nation is the generation among whom I was sent, then those who follow them, and then those who follow them.”3 Nor has anything of the kind been transmitted from any recognized imam or authoritative scholar.

Furthermore, many of the tales and dreams related in this regard cannot be authentically attributed to those from whom they are reported. They are merely fabricated sayings, lies, and forgeries—especially those attributed to certain people of knowledge and virtue. Shaykh al-Islām Ibn Taymiyya—may Allah have mercy on him—said: “This, praise be to Allah, has not been transmitted from any recognized imam or any scholar

(1) Sūrat al-Māʾida, verse 3. (2) *Iqtidāʾ al-Sirāt*, p. 344. (3) *Sahīh Muslim*, no. 2534; *al-Musnad*, 2:228.

هذا الاستدلال وفسادَه، ومِن تلك الأجوبة: أنَّ دينَ الله تامٌّ كاملٌ لا نقص فيه، والله يقول: ﴿اليَوْمَ أَكْمَلْتُ لَكُمْ دِينَكُمْ وَأَتْمَمْتُ عَلَيْكُمْ نِعْمَتِي وَرَضِيتُ لَكُمُ الإِسْلاَمَ دِينًا﴾ ١، فما لَم يكن ديناً زمن نبيِّنا ﷺ وأصحابه فليس اليوم ديناً، ولن يكون ديناً إلى أن تقوم الساعة، والله جلَّ وعلا لا يقبل في الدِّين إلاَّ ما دلَّ عليه كتابه وسُنَّة نبيِّه ﷺ، وأما الحكاياتُ والمناماتُ والقَصصُ والأخبارُ فليست مما يُقام عليه شرعٌ أو يُبنى عليه دينٌ، قال شيخ الإسلام ابن تيمية ﵀: " وإنَّما المتَّبَع عند علماء الإسلام في إثبات الأحكام هو كتابُ الله وسنةُ رسوله ﷺ وسبيلُ السابقين الأولين، ولا يجوز إثباتُ حكم شرعي بدون هذه الأصول الثلاثة نصًّا أو استنباطاً بحال "٢. ولَم يرِد في تحرِّي الدعاء عند القبور آيةٌ مُحكمةٌ ولا سنَّةٌ متَّبَعةٌ ولم يُنقل في جواز ذلك شيءٌ ثابتٌ عن القرون الثلاثة المفضَّلة التي أثنى عليها رسول الله ﷺ حيث قال: " خير أمتي القرن الذي بُعثتُ فيهم ثمَّ الذين يلونهم ثمَّ الذين يلونهم "٣، ولم يُنقل شيءٌ من ذلك عن إمامٍ معروف، ولا عالِمٍ متَّبَع. ثمَّ إنَّ كثيراً من هذه الحكايات والمنامات التي تُروى في هذا الباب لا تصح عمَّن نُقلت عنه، وإنَّما هي متقوَّلةٌ مكذوبةٌ مفتراةٌ، ولا سيما منها ما يُنسب إلى بعض أهل العلم والفضل، قال شيخ الإسلام ابن تيمية ﵀: " وهذا والحمد لله لَم يُنقل عن إمام معروف ولا عالم

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