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al-Ju‘fī (1), and by ‘Uthmān ibn Sa‘īd al-Dārimī; likewise, ‘Uthmān ibn Sa‘īd’s Rebuttal of Bishr al-Marīsī (2), and Refutation of the Jahmiyya by ‘Abd al-Rahmān ibn Abī Hātim (3); The Sunnah by ‘Abd Allāh, son of Imam Ahmad—may Allah be pleased with him—(4), by Abū Bakr al-Athram (5), and by al-Khallāl (6); and the book The Creation of
(1) Abū Abd Allah Muhammad ibn Abd Allah ibn al-Husayn al-Juʿfī al-Kūfī, a judge known as al-Harawānī or Ibn al-Harawānī, was one of the leading authorities of the Hanafī school. He was born in 305 AH and died in 402 AH. For his biography, see al-Dhahabī, *al-Ibar*, 3/81; Ibn al-Athīr, *al-Lubāb*, 3/289; *History of Baghdad*, 5/472–473; *Shadharāt al-Dhahab*, 3/165; and Abū Muhammad al-Qurashī, *al-Jawāhir al-Mudiyya fī Tabaqāt al-Hanafiyya*, 2/65, Hyderabad ed., 1332 AH. None of these sources mentions his book *Refutation of the Jahmiyya*. Compare *Darʾ*, 7/108.
(2) Al-Dārimī’s biography appeared above at 1/423. See also *Tadhkirat al-Huffāz*, 3/621–622, and *al-Alām*, 4/366. A modern edition of his *Refutation of the Jahmiyya* was published in Leiden in 1960, edited by the Orientalist Gösta Vitestam. *Uthmān ibn Saīd’s Rebuttal of Bishr al-Marīsī* was published in Cairo in 1358 AH, edited by Muhammad Hāmid al-Fiqī. Both works were also published in the collection *Aqāid al-Salaf*, al-Maārif Press, Alexandria, 1971 CE.
(3) Abd al-Rahmān ibn Abī Hātim’s biography and excerpts from this book appeared above at 2/251–254. Hājjī Khalīfa also mentioned the book in *Kashf al-Zunūn*, 1/838.
(4) Abū Abd al-Rahmān Abd Allah ibn Ahmad ibn Hanbal was born in 213 AH and died in 290 AH. For his biography, see *Tabaqāt al-Hanābila*, 1/180–188, and *Tadhkirat al-Huffāz*, 2/665–666. Brockelmann (*History of Arabic Literature*, 3/313) attributes to him *The Book of the Sunan: A Refutation of the Mutazila, the Jahmiyya, and Other Sects*, stating that a manuscript is held at Bankipore, 10/491. Sezgin, m [0–9], j [0–9], p. [0–9] 32, calls it *The Sunnah*. The book was published in Cairo in 1349 AH.
(5) Abū Bakr Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Hāni, al-Tāʾī al-Iskāfī, known as al-Athram, was a companion of Imam Ahmad and one of the leading hadith scholars. He died around 261 AH. For his biography, see *Tabaqāt al-Hanābila*, 1/66–74; *Tadhkirat al-Huffāz*, 2/570–572; *al-Alām*, 1/194; and Sezgin, m [0–9], j [0–9], p. [0–9] 29. His book *The Sunnah* is not available to us.
(6) Al-Khallāl’s biography appeared above at 1/424. Al-Ziriklī (*al-Alām*, 1/196) and Brockelmann (*History of Arabic Literature*, \ 313–314) mention him and his book *The Sunnah*, but neither discusses any manuscripts of it. See also his biography in Sezgin, m [0–9], j [0–9], pp. [0–9] 33–234.
الْجُعْفِيِّ
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وَلِعُثْمَانَ بْنِ سَعِيدٍ الدَّارِمِيِّ، وَكَذَلِكَ
" نَقْضُ عُثْمَانَ بْنِ سَعِيدٍ عَلَى بِشْرٍ الْمَرِيسِيِّ
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وَالرَّدُّ عَلَى الْجَهْمِيَّةِ "
لِعَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ أَبِي حَاتِمٍ
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، وَكِتَابُ
" السُّنَّةِ "
لِعَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ الْإِمَامِ أَحْمَدَ - رَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهُ -
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وَلِأَبِي بَكْرٍ الْأَثْرَمِ
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وَلِلْخَلَّالِ
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، وَكِتَابُ " خَلْقِ
(١) أَبُو عَبْدِ اللَّهِ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ الْحُسَيْنِ الْجُعْفِيُّ الْكُوفِيُّ الْقَاضِي الْمَعْرُوفُ بِالْهَرَوَانِيِّ أَوْ بِابْنِ الْهَرَوَانِيِّ، أَحَدُ الْأَئِمَّةِ الْأَعْلَامِ فِي مَذْهَبِ أَبِي حَنِيفَةَ. وُلِدَ سَنَةَ ٣٠٥ وَتُوُفِّيَ سَنَةَ ٤٠٢. تَرْجَمَتُهُ فِي: الْعِبَرِ لِلذَّهَبِيِّ ٣/٨١ ; اللُّبَابِ لِابْنِ الْأَثِيرِ ٣/٢٨٩ ; تَارِيخِ بَغْدَادَ ٥/٤٧٢ - ٤٧٣ ; شَذَرَاتِ الذَّهَبِ ٣/١٦٥ ; الْجَوَاهِرِ الْمُضِيَّةِ فِي طَبَقَاتِ الْحَنَفِيَّةِ لِأَبِي مُحَمَّدٍ الْقُرَشِيِّ ٢/٦٥، ط. حَيْدَرَ آبَادَ، ١٣٣٢. وَلَمْ تَذْكُرْ هَذِهِ الْمَرَاجِعُ كِتَابَ " الرَّدِّ عَلَى الْجَهْمِيَّةِ ". وَقَارِنْ: " دَرْءَ " ٧/١٠٨.
(٢) سَبَقَتْ تَرْجَمَتُهُ ١/٤٢٣. وَانْظُرْ تَرْجَمَتَهُ أَيْضًا فِي: تَذْكِرَةِ الْحُفَّاظِ ٣/٦٢١ - ٦٢٢ ; الْأَعْلَامِ ٤/٣٦٦. وَقَدْ طُبِعَ كِتَابُهُ " الرَّدُّ عَلَى الْجَهْمِيَّةِ " حَدِيثًا فِي لِيدِنَ سَنَةَ ١٩٦٠ بِتَحْقِيقِ الْمُسْتَشْرِقِ جُوسْتَا وِيتِسْتَام. وَطُبِعَ كِتَابُ " نَقْضِ عُثْمَانَ بْنِ سَعِيدٍ عَلَى بِشْرٍ الْمَرِيسِيِّ " بِتَحْقِيقِ مُحَمَّد حَامِد الْفِقِي، الْقَاهِرَةِ، ١٣٥٨، وَطُبِعَ الْكِتَابَانِ ضِمْنَ مَجْمُوعَةِ عَقَائِدِ السَّلَفِ ط. الْمَعَارِفِ، الْأَسْكَنْدَرِيَّةِ، ١٩٧١ م.
(٣) سَبَقَتْ تَرْجَمَتُهُ وَنَقْلُ نُصُوصٍ مِنْ كِتَابِهِ هَذَا ٢/٢٥١ - ٢٥٤. وَذَكَرَ الْكِتَابَ حَاجِّي خَلِيفَة فِي كَشْفِ الظُّنُونِ ١/٨٣٨.
(٤) أَبُو عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ حَنْبَلٍ، وُلِدَ سَنَةَ ٢١٣ وَتُوُفِّيَ سَنَةَ ٢٩٠. تَرْجَمَتُهُ فِي: طَبَقَاتِ الْحَنَابِلَةِ ١/١٨٠ - ١٨٨ ; تَذْكِرَةِ الْحُفَّاظِ ٢/٦٦٥ - ٦٦٦. وَذَكَرَ لَهُ بُرُوكِلْمَان (تَارِيخِ الْأَدَبِ الْعَرَبِيِّ ٣/٣١٣) : " كِتَابَ السُّنَنِ فِي الرَّدِّ عَلَى الْمُعْتَزِلَةِ وَالْجَهْمِيَّةِ وَفِرَقٍ أُخْرَى " وَقَالَ إِنَّ مِنْهُ نُسْخَةً خَطِّيَّةً فِي بِنْكَيْبُور ١٠/٤٩١، وَسَمَّاهُ سِزْكِين م [٠ - ٩] ، ج [٠ - ٩] ص [٠ - ٩] ٣٢ كِتَابَ " السُّنَّةِ ". وَقَدْ طُبِعَ الْكِتَابُ بِالْقَاهِرَةِ، سَنَةَ ١٣٤٩.
(٥) أَبُو بَكْرٍ أَحْمَدُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ هَانِي، الطَّائِيُّ الْإِسْكَافِيُّ الْأَثْرَمُ صَاحِبُ الْإِمَامِ أَحْمَدَ وَمِنْ أَئِمَّةِ الْمُحَدِّثِينَ، تُوُفِّيَ حَوَالَيْ سَنَةَ ٢٦١. تَرْجَمَتُهُ فِي: طَبَقَاتِ الْحَنَابِلَةِ ١/٦٦ - ٧٤ ; تَذْكِرَةِ الْحُفَّاظِ ٢/٥٧٠ - ٥٧٢ ; الْأَعْلَامِ ١/١٩٤ ; سِزْكِين م [٠ - ٩] ج [٠ - ٩] ، ص [٠ - ٩] ٢٩. وَلَا يُوجَدُ كِتَابُهُ " السُّنَّةُ " بَيْنَ أَيْدِينَا.
(٦) سَبَقَتْ تَرْجَمَتُهُ ١/٤٢٤، وَذَكَرَهُ الزِّرِكْلِيُّ (الْأَعْلَامِ ١/١٩٦) وَبُرُوكِلْمَان (تَارِيخِ الْأَدَبِ الْعَرَبِيِّ \ ٣١٣ - ٣١٤) وَذَكَرَا كِتَابَهُ " السُّنَّةَ " وَلَكِنَّهُمَا لَمْ يَتَكَلَّمَا عَنْ نُسَخٍ خَطِّيَّةٍ مِنْهُ. وَانْظُرْ تَرْجَمَتَهُ فِي: سِزْكِين م [٠ - ٩] ، ج [٠ - ٩] ، ص [٠ - ٩] ٣٣ - ٢٣٤.