Ibrāhīm Ibn Maḥmūd@ibmsulaymani
Al-Qāḍī Abā Buṭayn’s (1194-1280H) response to Ibn Ḥajar al-Haytamī’s slander against Ibn Taymīyyah and Ibn al-Qayyim:
• Al-Qāḍī Abā Buṭayn said:
❝I say: Rather, may Allāh disgrace Ibn Ḥajar [al-Haytamī] for his fabrication against Shaykh al-Islām Ibn Taymiyyah and his student Shams al-Dīn Ibn al-Qayyim, in what he attributed to them and accused them of from lies and slander. So whoever sincerely advises himself and wants to clarify Ibn Ḥajar’s lie should look into their books and reflect on their words; he will find them explicit in agreement with the madhhab of Ahl al-Sunnah wal-Jamāʿah, and that what they established and argued for is exactly the madhhab of the Salaf, agreeing with the Book and the Sunnah. It is the madhhab of Imām Aḥmad, the leading Imāms of his companions, and all the Imāms of Islām.
Ibn Ḥajar [al-Haytamī] only took this from the Jahmiyyah, for they used to call whoever said, “The Qurʾān is uncreated,” or “Allāh will be seen in the Hereafter,” or “He is above the Throne,” a corporealist and anthropomorphist. They would say: affirming that entails corporealism and anthropomorphism. They began branding Ahl al-Sunnah wal-Jamāʿah with these ugly names to repel the common people from the truth. The words of the Imāms and scholars of the Ummah in refuting them are well known.
The madhhab of Shaykh al-Islām Ibn Taymiyyah is the madhhab of the Imāms and the Salaf of the Ummah, agreeing with the Book and the Sunnah. It is to affirm what has come in the Book and the Sunnah of the attributes of the Creator, exalted is He; to take them upon their reality, not metaphorically; without negation or figurative reinterpretation, and without asking how or likening. They do not care that the people of innovation call them ugly names, nor do they abandon the truth because of that. They describe Allāh with what He described Himself, and they do not abandon that due to the denunciation of whoever denounces. The matter is as Nuʿaym Ibn Ḥammād said: “Whoever likens Allāh to His creation has disbelieved, and whoever denies what Allāh described Himself with has disbelieved. What Allāh described Himself with, or what His Messenger described Him with, is not likening.”❞
📚 (Majmūʿ Fatāwā wa-Rasāʾil al-Shaykh al-ʿAllāmah ʿAbd Allāh Ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān Abā Buṭayn p. 637-638)