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And Shaykh al-Islām Taqī al-Dīn Abū al-‘Abbās Ahmad ibn Taymiyyah—may Allah be pleased with him—said:
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Abū al-Hasan al-Āmidī said in his Ahkām:
“The second issue”: Scholars of legal theory have disagreed over whether language includes figurative designations. The scholar Abū Ishāq and his followers denied this—meaning Abū Ishāq al-Isfarāyīnī—while the remaining scholars affirmed it, and this is the correct view.
I say: The discussion concerns two matters: first, scrutinizing this report; and second, examining the evidence for the two views.
Regarding the first, we say:
If by “the remaining scholars of legal theory” he means everyone who has spoken about
وَقَالَ شَيْخُ الْإِسْلَامِ تَقِيُّ الدِّينِ أَبُو الْعَبَّاسِ أَحْمَد بْنُ تَيْمِيَّة - رَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهُ -:
فَصْلٌ:
قَالَ أَبُو الْحَسَنِ الآمدي فِي أَحْكَامِهِ:
" الْمَسْأَلَةُ الثَّانِيَةُ "
: اخْتَلَفَ الْأُصُولِيُّونَ فِي اشْتِمَالِ اللُّغَةِ عَلَى الْأَسْمَاءِ الْمَجَازِيَّةِ؛ فَنَفَاهُ الْأُسْتَاذُ أَبُو إسْحَاقَ وَمَنْ تَابَعَهُ؛ - يَعْنِي أَبَا إسْحَاقَ الإسفراييني - وَأَثْبَتَهُ الْبَاقُونَ وَهُوَ الْحَقُّ.
قُلْت الْكَلَامُ فِي شَيْئَيْنِ:
أَحَدُهُمَا: فِي تَحْرِيرِ هَذَا النَّقْلِ؛ وَالثَّانِي فِي النَّظَرِ فِي أَدِلَّةِ الْقَوْلَيْنِ.
أَمَّا الْأَوَّلُ فَيُقَالُ:
إنْ أَرَادَ بِالْبَاقِينَ مِنْ الْأُصُولِيِّينَ كُلَّ مَنْ تَكَلَّمَ فِي