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in his book] (The Establishment of Prophethood) (1).
[Prohibition of Concealing Knowledge]
[(Chapter (2).)].
When they persisted in requesting a refutation of this manifest misguidance, stating that to turn away [from doing so would be to forsake the believers], and those steeped in transgression took (3) this as a sign of some inability [to] (4) refute this calumny, I wrote such clarification as Allah enabled, [to fulfill what Allah had exacted of] the people of knowledge and faith by covenant, to uphold justice, and to bear witness
(1) In A, B, and L, the wording beginning “He transmitted this, etc.” is written out of order and in a confused form. Qādī ʿAbd al-Jabbār was ʿImād al-Dīn Abū al-Hasan ʿAbd al-Jabbār ibn Ahmad al-Hamadhānī al-Asadābādī, the leading Muʿtazilite authority of his time. The Muʿtazilites entitled him *Qādī al-Qudāt* (Chief Judge). He died in 415 AH and authored many works, the most important of which are *al-Mughnī fī al-ʿAdl wa al-Tawhīd*, *Sharh al-Usūl al-Khamsa*, *Tathbīt Dalāʾil al-Nubuwwa*, and *Tanzīh al-Quran ʿan al-Matāʿin*. For his biography and doctrine, see al-Jushamī, *Sharh al-ʿUyūn*, included in *Fadl al-Iʿtizāl wa Tabaqāt al-Muʿtazila*, ed. Fuʾād Sayyid, Tunisian Publishing House, 1393/1974, pp. 365–371; *Tabaqāt al-Shāfiʿiyya*, 5/97–98; *Lisān al-Mīzān*, 3/386–387; *Tārīkh Baghdād*, 11/113–115; *Shadharāt al-Dhahab*, 3/202–203; and *al-Aʿlām*, 4/47. Sezgin also gives a biographical notice on him, vol. 1, pt. [0–9], pp. [0–9]1–84, and states that a manuscript of *Tathbīt Dalāʾil al-Nubuwwa* is held at the Shahīd ʿAlī Library in Istanbul. A photographic copy of this manuscript is held at the Institute of Arabic Manuscripts in Cairo under shelf mark 60, *Tawhīd*. Qādī ʿAbd al-Jabbār related the report to which Ibn Taymiyya refers in *Tathbīt Dalāʾil al-Nubuwwa*, 1/549, ed. Dr. ʿAbd al-Karīm ʿUthmān—may Allah have mercy on him—Dār al-ʿArabiyya, Beirut, 1386/1966.
(2) The heading “Chapter” is an addition in A, L, and B.
(3) N, M: “then thought.”
(4) The preposition *ʿan* is omitted from N only.
فِي كِتَابِ]
(تَثْبِيتِ النُّبُوَّةِ)
(١)
.
[تحريم كتمان العلم]
[
(فَصْلٌ (٢)
.) ] .
فَلَمَّا أَلَحُّوا فِي طَلَبِ الرَّدِّ لِهَذَا الضَّلَالِ الْمُبِينِ، ذَاكِرِينَ أَنَّ فِي الْإِعْرَاضِ
[عَنْ ذَلِكَ خِذْلَانًا لِلْمُؤْمِنِينَ]
، وَظَنَّ
(٣)
أَهْلُ الطُّغْيَانِ نَوْعًا مِنَ الْعَجْزِ
[عَنْ]
(٤)
رَدِّ هَذَا الْبُهْتَانِ، فَكَتَبْتُ مَا يَسَّرَهُ اللَّهُ مِنَ الْبَيَانِ،
[وَفَاءً بِمَا أَخَذَهُ اللَّهُ مِنَ]
الْمِيثَاقِ عَلَى أَهْلِ الْعِلْمِ، وَالْإِيمَانِ، وَقِيَامًا بِالْقِسْطِ، وَشَهَادَةً
(١) فِي (أ) ، (ب) ، (ل) : نَقَلَ هَذَا. إِلَخْ، كُتِبَتِ الْعِبَارَةُ مَقْلُوبَةً وَمُضْطَرِبَةً. وَالْقَاضِي عَبْدُ الْجَبَّارِ هُوَ الْقَاضِي عِمَادُ الدِّينِ أَبُو الْحَسَنِ عَبْدُ الْجَبَّارِ بْنُ أَحْمَدَ الْهَمْدَانِيُّ الْأَسَدَابَادِيُّ، شَيْخُ الْمُعْتَزِلَةِ فِي عَصْرِهِ، وَهُمْ يُلَقِّبُونَهُ " قَاضِيَ الْقُضَاةِ "، تُوُفِّيَ سَنَةَ ٤١٥، وَلَهُ مُؤَلِّفَاتٌ كَثِيرَةٌ أَهَمُّهَا " الْمُغْنِي فِي الْعَدْلِ وَالتَّوْحِيدِ " وَ " شَرْحُ الْأُصُولِ الْخَمْسَةِ " وَ " تَثْبِيتُ دَلَائِلِ النُّبُوَّةِ " وَ " تَنْزِيهُ الْقُرْآنِ عَنِ الْمَطَاعِنِ ". انْظُرْ تَرْجَمَتَهُ وَمَذْهَبَهُ فِي: شَرْحِ الْعُيُونِ لِلْجُشَمِيِّ (ضِمْنَ كِتَابِ " فَضْلِ الِاعْتِزَالَ وَطَبَقَاتِ الْمُعْتَزِلَةِ "، تَحْقِيقَ الْأُسْتَاذِ فُؤَاد سَيِّد، الدَّارَ التُّونِسِيَّةَ لِلنَّشْرِ، ١٣٩٣ - ١٩٧٤) ص ٣٦٥ - ٣٧١؛ طَبَقَاتِ الشَّافِعِيَّةِ ٥/٩٧ - ٩٨؛ لِسَانَ الْمِيزَانِ ٣/٣٨٦ - ٣٨٧؛ تَارِيخَ بَغْدَادَ ١١/١١٣ - ١١٥؛ شَذَرَاتِ الذَّهَبِ ٣/٢٠٢ - ٢٠٣؛ الْأَعْلَامَ ٤/٤٧. وَتَرْجَمَ لَهُ سَزْكِينُ مُجَلَّدَ ١ ج [٠ - ٩] ص [٠ - ٩] ١ - ٨٤ وَذَكَرَ أَنَّهُ تُوجَدُ نُسْخَةٌ خَطِّيَّةٌ مِنْ كِتَابِ تَثْبِيتِ دَلَائِلِ النُّبُوَّةِ فِي مَكْتَبَةِ شَهِيد عَلِي (إِسْتَانْبُولَ) . وَتُوجَدُ مُصَوَّرَةٌ مِنْ هَذِهِ النُّسْخَةِ فِي مَعْهَدِ الْمَخْطُوطَاتِ الْعَرَبِيَّةِ بِالْقَاهِرَةِ بِرَقْمِ ٦٠ تَوْحِيدٌ) . وَقَدْ ذَكَرَ هَذَا الْخَبَرَ الَّذِي يُشِيرُ إِلَيْهِ ابْنُ تَيْمِيَّةَ الْقَاضِي عَبْدُ الْجَبَّارِ فِي كِتَابِهِ " تَثْبِيتِ دَلَائِلِ النُّبُوَّةِ " ١/٥٤٩ تَحْقِيقُ د. عَبْدِ الْكَرِيمِ عُثْمَان (رَحِمَهُ اللَّهُ) ، ط. دَارِ الْعَرَبِيَّةِ، بَيْرُوتَ، ١٣٨٦/١٩٦٦.
(٢) فَصْلٌ: زِيَادَةٌ فِي (أ) ، (ل) ، (ب) .
(٣) ن، م: فَظَنَّ.
(٤) عَنْ: سَاقِطَةٌ مِنْ (ن) فَقَطْ.