☪️Islamic Creed ('Aqidah)

The Book of Monotheism

كتاب التوحيد

Author: صالح بن فوزان بن عبد الله الفوزان

About this work

التوحيد هو كتاب لمحمد بن إسحاق بن خزيمة الشافعي النيسابوري (223 هـ - 311 هـ) في العقيدة الإسلامية على المنهج الأثري. أوضح مؤلفه سبب تصنيفه لهذا الكتاب، حيث ذكر أنه كان في بداية أمره منشغلاً بتأليف كتب الفقه، مكتفياً بما يجري من مناظرات مع المخالفين في مجالس العلم، غير أنه لما مُنع من الظهور والتعليم، وخشي أن يتأثر بعض طلاب العلم بما يسمعونه من أهل البدع كالقدرية والمعتزلة والمعطلة، عزم على تصنيف هذا الكتاب. وجمع فيه النصوص من القرآن الكريم والأحاديث الصحيحة، ليُبيّن من خلالها عقيدة أهل الأثر. …

Translation

Tawhid is a book by Muhammad bin Ishaq bin Khuzaymah Al-Shafi’i Al-Naysaburi (223 AH - 311 AH) on the Islamic faith according to the archaeological approach. Its author explained the reason for his classification of this book, as he mentioned that at the beginning of his career he was busy writing books on jurisprudence, content with the debates that took place with dissenters in the councils of knowledge. However, when he was prevented from appearing and teaching, and he feared that some students of knowledge would be influenced by what they heard from heretics such as the Qadariyya, the Mu’tazilites, and the Muta’ilah, he decided to classify this book. In it, he collected texts from the Holy Qur’an and authentic hadiths, in order to clarify the doctrine of the scholars of hadith. …

Topics covered

Tawheed Al-Fawzan
Introduction to the Book of Tawheed
Chapter One: Deviation in human life
Chapter Two: Polytheism, its definition and types
Chapter Three: Disbelief, its definition and types
Chapter Four: Hypocrisy, its definition and types
Chapter Two: Sayings and actions that contradict monotheism or diminish it
Chapter Two: Magic, divination, and divination
Chapter Six: Ruling by other than what God has revealed
Chapter Seven: Claiming the right to legislate, analyze, and prohibit
Chapter Nine: The Materialist Theory of Life
Chapter Ten: Ruqyah and Amulets
The first chapter is about the obligation to love and venerate the Messenger
Chapter Five: On the virtue of the Companions and what should be believed in them
Chapter Six: Prohibiting insulting the Companions and Imams of Guidance
Chapter Four: Heresies
Chapter One: Definition of heresy, its types and rulings
The fourth chapter explains examples of contemporary innovations

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