☪️Islamic Creed ('Aqidah)

The Lord of the Wilderness opened with a summary of Hamwiyah

فتح رب البرية بتلخيص الحموية

Author: محمد بن صالح بن محمد العثيمين (المتوفى: 1421هـ) (d. 1421)

About this work

هذا الكتاب "فتح رب البرية بتلخيص الحموية" للعلامة ابن عثيمين، يتناول موضوع العقيدة الإسلامية وآليات فهم آيات الصفات وأحاديثها في القرآن والسنة. يركز المؤلف على توضيح مذهب أهل السنة في هذا المجال، ويناقش البدع والانحرافات التي طرأت على فهم بعض المتأخرين لهذه النصوص، محاولاً تبيين الحقائق العقدية وفقاً لفهم السلف الصالح. الكتاب يهدف إلى توضيح مفاهيم دقيقة في العقيدة الإسلامية وحمايتها من التحريف والتأويل الخاطئ.

Translation

This book, “Fath Rab al-Bariyah bi Takhlis al-Hamwiyya,” by the scholar Ibn Uthaymeen, deals with the subject of the Islamic faith and the mechanisms for understanding the verses about the attributes and their hadiths in the Qur’an and Sunnah. The author focuses on clarifying the doctrine of the Sunnis in this field, and discusses the innovations and deviations that occurred in the understanding of these texts by some of the later generations, trying to clarify the doctrinal truths in accordance with the understanding of the righteous predecessors. The book aims to clarify precise concepts in the Islamic faith and protect them from distortion and wrong interpretation.

Topics covered

the introduction
Chapter One: What is obligatory for a servant in his religion
The third chapter is about the method of the Sunnis regarding the names and attributes of God
Chapter Five: The story of some of the latecomers to the doctrine of the Salaf
Chapter Six: Concealing the truth with falsehood by some latecomers
Chapter Seven: On the famous sayings of the predecessors regarding attributes
Chapter Eight: On the transcendence of God Almighty and the evidence of transcendence
Chapter nine on the side
Chapter Ten: On God’s Istiwaa on His Throne
Chapter Eleven on Ma'ya
Chapter Thirteen: On God’s Descent to the Lower Heaven
Chapter fourteen: On proving the face of God Almighty
Chapter fifteen: In the hands of God Almighty
Chapter Sixteen: In the eyes of God Almighty
Chapter Eighteen: On the Word of God Almighty
Chapter Nineteen: On the emergence of the article “At-Ta’il” and its derivation
Chapter Twenty: The method of denial and what must be proven
Chapter Twenty-Two: Warning the Salaf about the Science of Theology
Chapter twenty-six on Islam and faith

فتيا وجوابها في ذكر الاعتقاد وذم الاختلاف