Majmu' al-Fatawa - Ibn Taimiya - (19/5)

VOLUME NINETEEN
THE BOOK OF THE PRINCIPLES OF ISLAMIC JURISPRUDENCE
PART ONE:
FOLLOWING

In the name of Allah, the Most Merciful, the Bestower of Mercy.

Praise be to Allah alone, and may blessings and peace be upon him after whom there is no prophet.

Shaykh al-Islām—may Allah have mercy on him—said:

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The Quran, the Sunnah, and consensus—and, set against these by others, dreams, Israelite traditions, and anecdotes.

The truth containing no falsehood is what the messengers brought from Allah. For us, this is known through the Quran, the Sunnah, and consensus. As for what the messengers did not bring from Allah, or what they brought but which we have no means of knowing, it contains both truth and falsehood.

Thus, the binding authority that must be followed belongs to the Quran, the Sunnah, and consensus. These constitute truth containing no falsehood, which must be followed and may under no circumstances be abandoned. This obligation is comprehensive: nothing established by these foundations may be abandoned, and no one may depart from anything they establish. They rest upon two fundamental principles:

الْجُزْءُ الْتَاسِعِ عَشَرَ كِتَابُ أُصُولِ الْفِقْهِ الْجُزْءُ الْأَوَّلُ: الْاِتِّبَاعُ بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمَنِ الرَّحِيمِ الْحَمْدُ لِلَّهِ وَحْدَهُ وَالصَّلَاةُ وَالسَّلَامُ عَلَى مَنْ لَا نَبِيَّ بَعْدَهُ. قَالَ شَيْخُ الْإِسْلَامِ - رَحِمَهُ اللَّهُ -: فَصْلٌ: الْكِتَابُ وَالسُّنَّةُ وَالْإِجْمَاعُ وَبِإِزَائِهِ لِقَوْمٍ آخَرِينَ الْمَنَامَاتُ وَالْإِسْرَائِيلِيَاتُ وَالْحِكَايَاتُ وَذَلِكَ أَنَّ الْحَقَّ الَّذِي لَا بَاطِلَ فِيهِ هُوَ مَا جَاءَتْ بِهِ الرُّسُلُ عَنْ اللَّهِ وَذَلِكَ فِي حَقِّنَا وَيُعْرَفُ بِالْكِتَابِ وَالسُّنَّةِ وَالْإِجْمَاعِ وَأَمَّا مَا لَمْ تَجِئْ بِهِ الرُّسُلُ عَنْ اللَّهِ؛ أَوْ جَاءَتْ بِهِ وَلَكِنْ لَيْسَ لَنَا طَرِيقٌ مُوَصِّلَةٌ إلَى الْعِلْمِ بِهِ فَفِيهِ الْحَقُّ وَالْبَاطِلُ فَلِهَذَا كَانَتْ الْحُجَّةُ الْوَاجِبَةُ الِاتِّبَاعَ: لِلْكِتَابِ وَالسُّنَّةِ وَالْإِجْمَاعِ فَإِنَّ هَذَا حَقٌّ لَا بَاطِلَ فِيهِ وَاجِبُ الِاتِّبَاعِ لَا يَجُوزُ تَرْكُهُ بِحَالِ عَامُّ الْوُجُوبِ لَا يَجُوزُ تَرْكُ شَيْءٍ مِمَّا دَلَّتْ عَلَيْهِ هَذِهِ الْأُصُولُ وَلَيْسَ لِأَحَدِ الْخُرُوجُ عَنْ شَيْءٍ مِمَّا دَلَّتْ عَلَيْهِ وَهِيَ مَبْنِيَّةٌ عَلَى أَصْلَيْنِ: