Al-Rad 'ala al-Jahmiya
The Refutation of the Jahmites
Ahmad Ibn Hanbalالرد على الجهمية والزنادقة للإمام أحمد ت صبري — أحمد بن حنبل
193 pages
About
A brief treatise by Imam Ahmad ibn Hanbal, written to refute the doctrines of the Jahmiyyah, who denied the divine attributes and maintained that the Quran was created. The work affirms the traditional belief in the uncreated speech of God and defends a literal understanding of the religious texts without speculative interpretation.
Table of contents
Introduction
The Chapter on Introductions
Introduction to the Investigation
The Preface of the Compiler, Mercy of Allah
Chapter on Explaining That in Which the Heretics Have Strayed
The Definition of the Heretics and the Zindiq
The Heretics’ Doubt Concerning His Statement: ‘Whenever Their Skins Have Ripened’
The Doubts of the Heretics Regarding His Statement: 'This is a Day on Which They Do Not Speak'
The Heretics’ Doubt Concerning His Saying: ‘There Will Be No Kinship Among Them on That Day’
The Doubt of the Heretics Concerning His Saying: 'What Has Led You into Saqar?'
The Doubt of the Heretics Concerning His Statement: 'He Created You from Dust'
The Doubt of the Heretics Concerning His Saying: 'Lord of the East and West'
The Doubt of the Heretics in His Statement: 'And indeed, a day with your Lord is like a thousand years as you count'
The Heretics’ Doubt Concerning His Statement: 'And on the Day We shall gather them all together, then We shall say to those who associated (partners).'
The Doubt of the Heretics Concerning His Statement: 'By Allah, our Lord, we were not polytheists'
The doubts of the heretics regarding his statement: ‘And on the Day when the Hour is established, the criminals will swear that they spent but an hour’
The Doubt of the Heretics Concerning His Statement: ‘Indeed, you will only remain for ten [days]’
The heretics expressed doubt concerning his statement: 'On the Day when Allah gathers the Messengers and says, "What have you answered?" they will reply, "We have no knowledge."'
The Heretics’ Doubt Concerning His Statement: “On the Day When Allah Gathers the Messengers and Says, ‘What is Your Answer?’”
The heretics’ doubt concerning his statement: ‘Faces on that Day will be radiant, gazing toward their Lord’.
The Heretics' Doubt Concerning His Statement: 'No Eyes Can Comprehend Him'
The Doubts of the Heretics Concerning His Statement: ‘Glory be to You; I Have Repented to You, and I Am the First of the Believers’
The doubt of the heretics regarding his statement: 'Admit Pharaoh’s family to the most severe torment.'
The heretics doubt His statement: “They have no sustenance except from dung.”
The Heretics’ Doubt in His Statement: ‘That is because Allah is the Protector of those who believe, and the disbelievers have no protector.’
The Heretics’ Doubt Concerning His Statement: 'Indeed, Allah Loves the Just'
The Heretics’ Doubt Concerning His Statement: 'And the Believing Men and Believing Women are Allies of One Another'
The Heretics’ Doubt Concerning His Saying: “Indeed, My servants are not subject to your authority.”
The Heretics’ Doubt Concerning His Saying: "Today We Will Forget You, Just as You Forgot the Meeting of Your Day"
The heretics’ doubt concerning His saying: "And We shall gather him on the Day of Resurrection, blind."
The Heretics’ Doubt Concerning His Statement: ‘Indeed, I Am with You, Listening and Seeing’
The Doubt of the Heretics Concerning His Saying: 'Our Lord, let us see and let us hear'
The Debate of al-Jahm with the Sumaniyah
Introduction
Jahm's Reliance on Three Ambiguous Verses
The Jahmi Exegesis on 'Making' in the Sense of Creation and the Refutation of Them
Explanation of What Separates God's Word from His Creation
The Treatise on the Waw of the Eight
An Explanation of What God Has Rejected: That the Qur'an Is Nothing But Revelation and Not a Created Entity
A Discourse on the Term 'By My Life'
A Refutation of the Jahmites on Naming the Qur'an as Something
The Response to the Jahmiyya Concerning the Designation of the Qur'an as Created
The Conflation of Two Things Under One Name on Which Praise or Blame Is Applied
Another Objection of the Jahmiyya Concerning the Qur'an Being Created
An Explanation of What the Jahmiyyah Denied Concerning the Statement of Allah: “And on that Day the Faces Will Be Radiant, Looking Toward Their Lord.”
The Response to the Jahmites on Their Claim: ‘It Awaits Reward’
Proof of the Vision of Allah ﷿ in the Hereafter
Clarification of What the Jahmiyyah Denied Concerning God Being the Word of Moses
Clarification of What the Jahmiyyah Denied Concerning God's Being on the Throne
Refutation of the Jahmiyyah Concerning Their Claim That God Is Everywhere
Establishing the Denunciation of the Attribute of Lowliness and Its Exclusion from Allah, the Exalted
The Denial of God’s Association with the Devils and His Exaltation from Union with Filth and Carnality
Rational Proofs That God Does Not Touch His Creation
Proof that God is Separate from His Creation and His Knowledge Encompasses All of Creation
Establishing the Exaltation of Allah and His Supremacy Over All His Creatures
An Explanation of the Jahmiyyah’s Interpretation of the Statement of Allah, the Exalted: 'There is no private conversation among three except that He is their fourth, nor among five except that He is their sixth.'
Explanation of What Allah Said in the Qur'an: 'And He Is with You'
The Speech on Allah's Name in the Qur'an: Is it Created?
Clarification of the Jahmiyyah Claim That the Qur'an Is Created, from the Narrated Hadith
Explanation of the Jahmiyyah’s Interpretation of Allah’s Saying: 'He is the First and the Last'
The Index