Ibn Taymiyyah
historical figure · 2 works · 5 mentions · 13 anchored passages
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Bayān zaghl al-ʻilm wa-al-ṭalab
The Damascene jurist and theologian named among the few contemporaries who, in the author's judgement, still understand hadith and give their care to the athar.
And we praise God Most High that there are in this present time men who understand this business and give their care to the transmitted report, such as al-Mizzī, Ibn Taymīyah, al-Birzālī, Ibn Sayyid al-Nās, Quṭb al-Dīn al-Ḥalabī, Taqī al-Dīn al-Subkī, the judge Shams al-Dīn al-Ḥanbalī, the son of the chief judge Badr al-Dīn ibn Jamāʻah, Ṣalāḥ al-Dīn ibn al-ʻAlāʼī, Fakhr al-Dīn ibn al-Fakhr, Amīn a …
I have wearied myself in the weighing of him and the searching of him out until I grew sick of it over long-drawn years, and I have found nothing that set him back among the people of Egypt and Syria, and made their souls loathe him and hold him cheap and call him a liar and charge him with unbelief, except pride and self-satisfaction and an excess of passion for the headship of the shaykhly offic …
For should you excel in the principles and their appendages — logic, philosophy (*al-ḥikmah*), the philosophers, the opinions of the ancients and the perplexities of intellects — and should you together with that hold fast to the Book and the Sunnah and the principles of the forebears, and stitch reason and transmitted authority (*al-ʻaql wa-al-naql*) together, I do not think you will in this reac …
Kitāb madhāhib al-Aʻrāb wa-falāsifat al-Islām fī al-jinn
The Ḥanbalī theologian named ninth among the philosophers of Islam to be treated on the jinn.
(As for *the second aim*) it is on the views of the philosophers of Islam concerning the jinn:
Not one of the sects of the Muslims has differed about the existence of the jinn, and likewise the generality of the unbelievers, because their existence is borne by the reports of the prophets in a mass transmission (tawātur) known by compulsion, which ⟨.
And he expatiated, may God have mercy on him, in his book al-Furqān — the printed one — upon what pertains to the jinn and the satans;