Minhaj as-Sunnah - Ibn Taimiya - (4/591)

Minhaj as-SunnahIbn Taimiya

upon any reprehensible issue, unlike the Rāfidah, who hold reprehensible doctrines found among no one else.

As for his statement:

“And who invalidates the prayer for failing to invoke blessings upon their Imams, yet mentions the Imams of others.”

What he means must be either that invoking blessings upon the Twelve Imams is obligatory—or upon one particular person other than the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, whether one of them or someone else—or that what is meant is the obligation to invoke blessings upon the [family](1) of the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace. If he intended(2) the former, this is among their gravest forms of misguidance and departure from the revealed law of Muhammad, may Allah bless him and grant him peace. Both we and they know as a matter of necessity that the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, never commanded the Muslims to invoke blessings upon the Twelve, whether during the prayer or outside [the prayer](3). Nor did any Muslim do anything of the kind during his lifetime, and no one transmitted this from the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, through either a sound or a weak chain of transmission. During the lifetime of the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, no one was required to take any of the Twelve as an Imam, much less to invoke blessings upon him during the prayer.

The Muslims’ prayers during his lifetime(4) were valid by necessity and consensus. Thus, whoever has required invoking blessings upon these men during the prayer and has declared the prayer invalid for omitting the invocation of blessings

(1) “Family” is absent from MSS N, M, and S. (2) MS S ends at the phrase “If he intended,” as I indicated in the introduction to the book. (3) MSS N, M, and W read: “nor outside it.” (4) MS B reads: “valid in this regard”; MS H: “during his lifetime, valid”; MS M: “valid during the lifetime of the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace.”

عَلَى مَسْأَلَةٍ رَدِيَّةٍ، بِخِلَافِ الرَّافِضَةِ ; فَإِنَّ لَهُمْ مِنَ الْمَسَائِلِ الرَّدِيَّةِ مَا لَا يُوجَدُ لِغَيْرِهِمْ. وَأَمَّا قَوْلُهُ: " وَمَنْ يُبْطِلُ الصَّلَاةَ بِإِهْمَالِ الصَّلَاةِ عَلَى أَئِمَّتِهِمْ، وَيَذْكُرُ أَئِمَّةَ غَيْرِهِمْ " . فَإِمَّا أَنْ يَكُونَ الْمُرَادُ بِذَلِكَ أَنَّهُ تَجِبُ الصَّلَاةُ عَلَى الْأَئِمَّةِ الِاثْنَيْ عَشَرَ، أَوْ عَلَى وَاحِدٍ مُعَيَّنٍ غَيْرِ النَّبِيِّ - صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ - مِنْهُمْ أَوْ مِنْ غَيْرِهِمْ. وَأَمَّا أَنْ يَكُونَ الْمُرَادُ وُجُوبَ الصَّلَاةِ عَلَى [آلِ] (١) النَّبِيِّ - صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ -. فَإِنْ أَرَادَ (٢) الْأَوَّلَ فَهَذَا مِنْ أَعْظَمِ ضَلَالِهِمْ وَخُرُوجِهِمْ عَنْ شَرِيعَةِ مُحَمَّدٍ - صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ - ; فَإِنَّا نَحْنُ وَهُمْ نَعْلَمُ بِالِاضْطِرَارِ أَنَّ النَّبِيَّ - صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ - لَمْ يَأْمُرِ الْمُسْلِمِينَ أَنْ يُصَلُّوا عَلَى الِاثْنَيْ عَشَرَ: لَا فِي الصَّلَاةِ، وَلَا فِي غَيْرِ [الصَّلَاةِ] (٣) ، وَلَا كَانَ أَحَدٌ مِنَ الْمُسْلِمِينَ يَفْعَلُ شَيْئًا مِنْ ذَلِكَ عَلَى عَهْدِهِ، وَلَا نَقَلَ هَذَا أَحَدٌ عَنِ النَّبِيِّ - صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ -: لَا بِإِسْنَادٍ صَحِيحٍ وَلَا ضَعِيفٍ، وَلَا كَانَ يَجِبُ عَلَى أَحَدٍ فِي حَيَاةِ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ - صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ - أَنْ يَتَّخِذَ أَحَدًا مِنَ الِاثْنَيْ عَشَرَ إِمَامًا، فَضْلًا عَنْ أَنْ تَجِبَ الصَّلَاةُ عَلَيْهِ فِي الصَّلَاةِ. وَكَانَتْ صَلَاةُ الْمُسْلِمِينَ صَحِيحَةً فِي عَهْدِهِ (٤) بِالضَّرُورَةِ وَالْإِجْمَاعِ. فَمَنْ أَوْجَبَ الصَّلَاةَ عَلَى هَؤُلَاءِ فِي الصَّلَاةِ، وَأَبْطَلَ الصَّلَاةَ بِإِهْمَالِ الصَّلَاةِ

(١) آلِ: سَاقِطَةٌ مِنْ (ن) ، (م) ، (ص) . (٢) عِنْدَ عِبَارَةِ " فَإِنْ أَرَادَ " تَنْتَهِي نُسْخَةُ (ص) كَمَا أَشَرْتُ إِلَى ذَلِكَ فِي مُقَدِّمَةِ الْكِتَابِ. (٣) ن، م، و: وَلَا فِي غَيْرِهَا. (٤) ب: فِي هَذِهِ صَحِيحَةً، ح: فِي عَهْدِهِ صَحِيحَةً ; م: صَحِيحَةً فِي عَهْدِ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ - صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ -.