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Abū Bakr al-Kalābādhī from the Sufis in his book An Introduction to the Doctrine of the Sufis (1). It is also the position of the leading followers of Ahmad, such as Abū Bakr Abd al-Azīz, Ibn Hāmid, Ibn Shāqlā (2), and others (3). [This was] the latter of the Judge [Abū Yaʿlā]’s two positions (4), and the position chosen by most (5) of his followers, such as his son Abū al-Husayn (6), and others. Only a group among them, such as Ibn Aqīl and others like him, adopted the other position (7).
Since this was the position of al-Ashʿarī [and others like him] (8), and he, together with the rest of Ahl al-Sunnah—
(1) N reads: *al-Ta'rīf li-Ahl al-Tasawwuf*; M, A, and B read: *al-Ta'arruf li-Madhhab al-Tasawwuf*. He was Abū Bakr Muhammad ibn Ishāq al-Bukhārī al-Kalābādhī, who died in 380 AH and authored *al-Ta'arruf li-Madhhab Ahl al-Tasawwuf*. Professor Arthur John Arberry published the work in Cairo in 1352 AH/1933 CE. It was subsequently published in an edition prepared by Dr. Abd al-Halīm Mahmūd and Tāhā Surūr, Isā al-Halabī Press, 1380 AH/1960 CE. On al-Kalābādhī, see *al-A'lām*, 6/184. The statement to which Ibn Taymiyya refers appears in the book, al-Halabī edition, p. 38.
(2) A and B read: “Abū al-Hasan ibn Shāqlā.” I deemed it most likely that the copyist had erred in writing the *kunya*. Ibrāhīm ibn Ahmad ibn Umar ibn Hamdān ibn Shāqlā, Abū Ishāq al-Bazzār, died in 369 AH. For his biography, see: *Tabaqāt al-Hanābila*, 2/128–139; *Shadharāt al-Dhahab*, 3/68; *Tārīkh Baghdād*, 6/17; al-Dhahabī’s *al-Ibar*, 2/351.
(3) The words “and others” are omitted from A and B.
(4) N and M read: “and the latter of the judge’s two opinions.”
(5) N alone reads: “some.”
(6) A and B read: “such as Abū al-Hasan,” which is an error. He was the judge Abū al-Husayn Muhammad ibn Muhammad ibn al-Husayn ibn Muhammad ibn Khalaf ibn Abī Ya'lā, who died in 526 AH and authored *Tabaqāt al-Hanābila*. For his biography, see: *Shadharāt al-Dhahab*, 4/79; Ibn Rajab’s *al-Dhayl*, 1/176–178; *al-A'lām*, 7/249; Ibn al-Jawzī’s *Manāqib al-Imām Ahmad*, p. 529.
(7) N alone reads: “the first.”
(8) The words “and the like” are omitted from N and M.
أَبُو بَكْرٍ الْكَلَابَاذِيُّ عَنِ الصُّوفِيَّةِ فِي كِتَابِ التَّعَرُّفِ لِمَذْهَبِ أَهْلِ التَّصَوُّفِ
(١)
، وَهُوَ قَوْلُ أَئِمَّةِ أَصْحَابِ أَحْمَدَ كَأَبِي بَكْرٍ عَبْدِ الْعَزِيزِ، وَابْنِ حَامِدٍ، وَابْنِ شَاقْلَا
(٢)
، وَغَيْرِهِمْ
(٣)
،
[وَهُوَ]
آخِرُ قَوْلَيِ الْقَاضِي
[أَبِي يَعْلَى]
(٤)
، وَاخْتِيَارُ أَكْثَرِ
(٥)
أَصْحَابِهِ كَأَبِي الْحُسَيْنِ ابْنِهِ
(٦)
وَغَيْرِ هَؤُلَاءِ، وَإِنَّمَا اخْتَارَ الْقَوْلَ الْآخَرَ
(٧)
طَائِفَةٌ مِنْهُمْ كَابْنِ عَقِيلٍ وَنَحْوِهِ.
وَلَمَّا كَانَ هَذَا قَوْلُ الْأَشْعَرِيِّ
[وَنَحْوِهِ]
(٨)
، وَهُوَ مَعَ سَائِرِ أَهْلِ السُّنَّةِ
(١) ن: التَّعْرِيفُ لِأَهْلِ التَّصَوُّفِ؛ م، ا، ب: التَّعَرُّفُ لِمَذْهَبِ التَّصَوُّفِ. وَهُوَ أَبُو بَكْرٍ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ إِسْحَاقَ الْبُخَارِيُّ الْكَلَابَاذِيُّ الْمُتَوَفَّى سَنَةَ ٣٨٠، صَاحِبُ كِتَابِ " التَّعَرُّفِ لِمَذْهَبِ أَهْلِ التَّصَوُّفِ " وَقَدْ نَشَرَهُ الْأُسْتَاذُ آرْثَرْ جُونْ آرْبِرِي، الْقَاهِرَةَ، ١٣٥٢/١٩٣٣، ثُمَّ نُشِرَ بِتَحْقِيقِ د. عَبْدِ الْحَلِيمِ مَحْمُودْ وَالْأُسْتَاذِ طه سُرُورْ، ط. عِيسَى الْحَلَبِيِّ، ١٣٨٠/١٩٦٠. وَانْظُرْ عَنِ الْكَلَابَاذِيِّ: الْأَعْلَامَ ٦/١٨٤. وَالْقَوْلُ الَّذِي يُشِيرُ إِلَيْهِ ابْنُ تَيْمِيَةَ مَذْكُورٌ فِي الْكِتَابِ (ط. الْحَلَبِيِّ) ص ٣٨.
(٢) ا، ب: أَبِي الْحَسَنِ بْنِ شَاقْلَا، وَرَجَّحْتُ أَنْ تَكُونَ الْكُنْيَةُ قَدْ أَخْطَأَ النَّاسِخُ فِي كِتَابَتِهَا. وَإِبْرَاهِيمُ بْنُ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ عُمَرَ بْنِ حَمْدَانَ بْنِ شَاقْلَا، أَبُو إِسْحَاقَ الْبَزَّارُ، الْمُتَوَفَّى سَنَةَ ٣٦٩. تَرْجَمَتُهُ فِي طَبَقَاتِ الْحَنَابِلَةِ ٢/١٢٨ - ١٣٩؛ شَذَرَاتِ الذَّهَبِ ٣/٦٨؛ تَارِيخِ بَغْدَادَ ٦/١٧؛ الْعِبَرِ لِلذَّهَبِيِّ ٢/٣٥١.
(٣) وَغَيْرِهِمْ: سَاقِطَةٌ مِنْ (ا) ، (ب) .
(٤) ن، م: وَآخِرُ قَوْلَيِ الْقَاضِي.
(٥) ن (فَقَطْ) : بَعْضِ.
(٦) ا، ب: كَأَبَى الْحَسَنِ وَهُوَ خَطَأٌ، وَهُوَ الْقَاضِي أَبُو الْحُسَيْنِ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ الْحُسَيْنِ بْنِ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ خَلَفِ بْنِ أَبِي يَعْلَى الْمُتَوَفَّى سَنَةَ ٥٢٦، مُؤَلِّفُ كِتَابَ " طَبَقَاتِ الْحَنَابِلَةِ ". انْظُرْ تَرْجَمَتَهُ فِي: شَذَرَاتِ الذَّهَبِ ٤/٧٩؛ الذَّيْلِ لِابْنِ رَجَبٍ ١/١٧٦ - ١٧٨؛ الْأَعْلَامِ ٧/٢٤٩؛ مَنَاقِبِ الْإِمَامِ أَحْمَدَ لِابْنِ الْجَوْزِيِّ، ص ٥٢٩.
(٧) ن (فَقَطْ) : الْأَوَّلَ.
(٨) وَنَحْوِهِ: سَاقِطَةٌ مِنْ (ن) ، (م) .