Minhaj as-Sunnah - Ibn Taimiya - (2/640)

Minhaj as-SunnahIbn Taimiya

which He performs upon the Throne, such as bringing it near to Him, or an act subsisting in His Essence—two distinct positions. The first is the position of Ibn Kullāb, al-Asharī, Judge Abū Yalā, Abū al-Hasan al-Tamīmī and his household (1), Abū Sulaymān al-Khattābī (2), Abū Bakr al-Bayhaqī (3), Ibn al-Zāghūnī and Ibn Aqīl (4), and others who maintain that nothing connected with His will and power subsists in His Essence.

The second is the position of the leading hadith scholars (5) and the majority of them, such as Ibn al-Mubārak and Hammād ibn Zayd (6), al-Awzāī (7), al-Bukhārī, Harb al-Kirmānī (8), Ibn Khuzayma (9), Yahyā ibn Ammār al-Sijistānī (10), Uthmān ibn Saīd al-Dārimī (11), Ibn Hāmid (12), Abū Bakr Abd al-Azīz (13), Abū Abd Allāh ibn Mandah (14), [and Abū] Ismāīl al-Ansārī (15)

(1) Abū al-Hasan Abd al-Azīz ibn al-Hārith al-Tamīmī and the Tamīmīs were discussed previously at 2/322. (2) Abū Sulaymān Ahmad ibn Ibrāhīm al-Bustī al-Khattābī; his biography appeared previously at 1/313. (3) His biography appeared previously at 2/365. (4) The biographies of Ibn Aqīl and Ibn al-Zāghūnī appeared previously at 1/142–143. (5) B and A read: “the leading scholars of the People of Hadith.” (6) Their biographies appeared previously at 2/143, 144. (7) His biography appeared previously at 2/462. (8) His biography appeared previously at 1/433. (9) His biography appeared previously at 2/365. (10) Abū Zakariyyā Yahyā ibn Ammār al-Sijistānī, a preacher who settled in Herat, was highly accomplished in Quranic exegesis and the Sunnah. He died in 422 AH. See his biography in al-Dhahabī’s *al-Ibar*, 3/151, and *Shadharāt al-Dhahab*, 3/326. (11) His biography appeared previously at 1/433 and 2/364. (12) His biography appeared previously at 1/433. (13) His biography appeared previously at 1/434. (14) His biography appeared previously at 1/435. (15) B and A read: “and Ismāʿīl al-Ansārī.” His biography appeared previously at 1/433 and 2/610.

يَفْعَلُهُ بِالْعَرْشِ كَتَقْرِيبِهِ إِلَيْهِ، أَوْ فِعْلٌ يَقُومُ بِذَاتِهِ عَلَى قَوْلَيْنِ. وَالْأَوَّلُ قَوْلُ ابْنُ كُلَّابٍ وَالْأَشْعَرِيِّ وَالْقَاضِي أَبِي يَعْلَى وَأَبِي الْحَسَنِ التَّمِيمِيِّ وَأَهْلِ بَيْتِهِ (١) وَأَبِي سُلَيْمَانَ الْخَطَّابِيِّ (٢) وَأَبِي بَكْرٍ الْبَيْهَقِيِّ (٣) وَابْنِ الزَّاغُونِيِّ وَابْنِ عَقِيلٍ (٤) وَغَيْرِهِمْ مِمَّنْ يَقُولُ: إِنَّهُ لَا يَقُومُ بِذَاتِهِ مَا يَتَعَلَّقُ بِمَشِيئَتِهِ وَقُدْرَتِهِ. وَالثَّانِي قَوْلُ أَئِمَّةِ الْحَدِيثِ (٥) وَجُمْهُورِهِمْ كَابْنِ الْمُبَارَكِ وَحَمَّادِ بْنِ زَيْدٍ (٦) وَالْأَوْزَاعِيِّ (٧) وَالْبُخَارِيِّ وَحَرْبِ الْكِرْمَانِيِّ (٨) وَابْنِ خُزَيْمَةَ (٩) وَيَحْيَى بْنِ عَمَّارٍ السِّجِسْتَانِيِّ (١٠) وَعُثْمَانِ بْنِ سَعِيدٍ الدَّارِمِيِّ (١١) وَابْنِ حَامِدٍ (١٢) وَأَبِي بَكْرٍ عَبْدِ الْعَزِيزِ (١٣) وَأَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ مَنْدَهْ (١٤) [وَأَبِي] إِسْمَاعِيلَ الْأَنْصَارِيِّ (١٥)

(١) سَبَقَ الْكَلَامُ عَنْ أَبِي الْحَسَنِ عَبْدِ الْعَزِيزِ بْنِ الْحَارِثِ التَّمِيمِيِّ وَالتَّمِيمِيِّينَ ٢/٣٢٢. (٢) أَبُو سُلَيْمَانَ أحَمَدُ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ الْبُسْتِيُّ الْخَطَّابِيُّ سَبَقَتْ تَرْجَمَتُهُ ١/٣١٣. (٣) سَبَقَتْ تَرْجَمَتُهُ ٢/٣٦٥. (٤) سَبَقَتْ تَرْجَمَةُ ابْنِ عَقِيلٍ وَابْنِ الزَّاغُونِيِّ ١/١٤٢ - ١٤٣. (٥) ب، أ: أَئِمَّةِ أَهْلِ الْحَدِيثِ. (٦) سَبَقَتْ تَرْجَمَتُهُمَا ٢/١٤٣، ١٤٤. (٧) سَبَقَتْ تَرْجَمَتُهُ ٢/٤٦٢. (٨) سَبَقَتْ تَرْجَمَتُهُ ١/٤٣٣. (٩) سَبَقَتْ تَرْجَمَتُهُ ٢/٣٦٥. (١٠) أَبُو زَكَرِيَّا يَحْيَى بْنُ عَمَّارٍ السِّجِسْتَانِيِّ، الْوَاعِظُ نَزِيلُ هَرَاةَ، كَانَ بَارِعًا فِي التَّفْسِيرِ وَالسُّنَّةِ، تُوُفِّيَ ٤٢٢. انْظُرْ تَرْجَمَتَهُ فِي الْعِبَرِ لِلذَّهَبِيِّ ٣/١٥١ ; شَذَرَاتِ الذَّهَبِ ٣/٣٢٦. (١١) سَبَقَتْ تَرْجَمَتُهُ ١/٤٣٣، ٢/٣٦٤. (١٢) سَبَقَتْ تَرْجَمَتُهُ ١/٤٣٣. (١٣) سَبَقَتْ تَرْجَمَتُهُ ١/٤٣٤. (١٤) سَبَقَتْ تَرْجَمَتُهُ ١/٤٣٥. (١٥) ب، أ: وَإِسْمَاعِيلَ الْأَنْصَارِيِّ. وَسَبَقَتْ تَرْجَمَتُهُ ١/٤٣٣، ٢/٦١٠.