The Ḥanbalīs

bi-al-kibār (١) fa-unẓur kayfa wabāl al-daʻāwá wa-maḥabbat al-ẓuhūr nasʼal Allāh al-musāmaḥah fa-qad qāma ʻalayhi unās laysū bi-awraʻ minhu wa-lā aʻlam minhu wa-lā azhad minhu bal yatajāwazūn ʻan dhunūb aṣḥābihim wa-āthām aṣdiqāʼihim wa-mā sallaṭahum Allāh ʻalayhi bi-taqwāhum wa-jalālatihim bal bi-dhunūbihi wa-mā dafaʻa Allāh ʻanhu wa-ʻan atbāʻihi akthar wa-mā jará ʻalayhim illā baʻḍ mā yastaḥiqqūn fa-lā takun fī rayb min dhālika .

( al-Ḥanābilah )

Wa-ammā al-Ḥanābilah fa-ʻindahum ʻulūm nāfiʻah wa-fīhim dīn fī al-jumlah wa-lahum qillat ḥaẓẓ fī al-dunyā , wa-al-nās yatakallamūn fī ʻaqīdatihim wa-yarmūnahum bi-al-tajsīm wa-bi-annahu yalzamuhum wa-hum barīʼūn min dhālika illā al-nādir (٢) wa-Allāh yaghfir lahum .

— al-ḥawāshī —

[18] (١) wa-min jumlat mā yaqūluhu al-Dhahabī fī ḥaqqihi mā naqalahu Ibn Ḥajar fī al-Durar al-kāminah : . . wa-man khālaṭahu wa-ʻarafahu qad yansubunī ilá al-taqṣīr fīhi wa-man nābadhahu wa-khālafahu qad yansubunī ilá al-taghālī fīhi wa-qad ūdhītu min al-farīqayn min aṣḥābihi wa-aḍdādihi . . wa-anā lā aʻtaqid fīhi ʻiṣmah bal anā mukhālif lahu fī masāʼil aṣlīyah wa-farʻīyah h . Wa-mimmā yajib al-tanabbuh ilayhi anna ʻādat al-Dhahabī fī tarājim al-nās an yuwazziʻ ārāʼahu fī al-rajul ʻalá kutubihi fa-lā yughnī kitāb lahu ʻan kitāb ākhar lahu fī al-tarājim wa-hādhā min maʻāyib kutubihi wa-laʻalla sabab dhālika annahu min al-mubakkirīn fī taʼlīf al-tarājim fa-yutarjim man yutarjim lahum qabla an yadrus ḥayātahum ʻalá al-wajh thumma yatadārak māfātahu fī baqīyat kutubihi wa-hādhihi mutʻibah lil-fāḥiṣ .

[18] (٢) Ammā al-taṣrīḥ bi-al-jismīyah fa-huwa kamā qāla al-muṣannif nādir baynahum wa-ammā maʻnāhā fa-ghālib fīhim wa-min lawāzim aqwālihim al-bayyinah ḥāshā al-Tamīmīyīn wa-Ibn ʻAqīl wa-Ibn al-Jawzī wa-man sāra sayrahum min al-muwaffaqīn wa-qalīl mā hum baynahum , wa-amr al-muṣannif fī al-muʻtaqad ẓāhir makshūf fī kitāb al-ʻUlūw wa-ghayrihi .