Chapter: Table of Contents

Table of Contents
Topic Page
Foreword by Zuhayr al-Shawish 3
Introduction by Muhammad Nasir al-Din al-Albani 5
– Description of the manuscript 8
– Removal of weak hadiths such as the “Hadith of the Creaking” 11
– Omission of reports that the author affirmed as sound despite a critical flaw 11
– Ibn Taymiyyah’s remarks on the People of Hadith and the theologians 13
– Shaykh al-Kawthari’s attack on Ahl al-Sunnah 14
– The Praiseworthy Station 16
– The two expressions “in His Essence” and “separate” 17
– The author’s methodological steps in the book 20
The subject of the book and its gravity 22
– Interpretation of istiwāʾ (establishment over the Throne) 25
– Discussion of the Divine Attributes 27
– The harm of figurative interpretation (taʾwīl) 32
– The hadiths concerning the Attributes 36
– The meaning of istiwāʾ according to Ibn Taymiyyah 40
– Rebuttal of Abū Zahra 40
– The misguidance of the Jahmiyyah 52
– The misguidance of those who go to extremes in denying Divine elevation 53