Issues Related to the ‘Aqida of Imam Ibn ‘Abdal-Barr (d. 463 AH)

Al Hafiz Ibn ‘Abd al-Barr (d.463H) was a renowned specialist in Hadith affiliated to the Maliki madhhab. Al Qadi ‘Iyad (d.544H) said of him: “His name is Yusuf ibn’ Abdi Llah Ibn Muhammad Ibn ‘Abd al-Barr al-Numayrî. The Hafiz, the Shaykh of the scholars of…

The Creed Of Imam Bukhari and the Salaf Quoted in Khalq Af’al al-Ibad

The claimants to Salafiyyah have produced QUOTES of the salaf recorded in Imam al-Bukhari’s [196-256H] Khalq Af’al al-Ibad which were made in response to the extinct Jahmiyya sect who believed that Allah was in every place intermixed in creation / every-where believing that these statements…

Who is Right According to Qur'an and Sunnah: Ibn Baaz, Ibn Uthaymeen or Albani?

The opponents of the four Madhabs, also known as Salafis, would have us believe that the differences between the madhabs would not exist had the madhabs all followed the Qur’an and Sunnah. In this is an insinuation that the madhabs do not necessarily follow authentic hadith. This is why…

The Bid’ah and Perils of Trinity of Tawheed

If there is a common thread between the different terrorist groups acting in the name of Islam such as ISIS or Al-Qaida and the like, it has to be the fact that they adopted the view that tawheed is divided into three: Tawheed Al-Ruboobiyya, Al-Uloohiyy and Al…

Did Imam al-Dhahabi write "al-Nasiha al-Dhahabiyya" to Ibn Taymiyya?

Assalamu alaikum

A brother from Birmingham, UK, had once asked:

salaam alaikum

I have recently read an article by abu rumaysah claiming that hafidth dhahabi did not write the nasee’ha. This is what he says:

“On the book ‘Naseehah adh-Dhahabiyyah’:
A book ascribed to adh-Dhahabee in…