✍️Works of Ibn Taymiyyah

Lifting the blame from the eminent imams

رفع الملام عن الأئمة الأعلام

Author: تقي الدين أبو العَباس أحمد بن عبد الحليم بن عبد السلام بن عبد الله بن أبي القاسم بن محمد ابن تيمية الحراني الحنبلي الدمشقي (المتوفى: 728هـ) (d. 728)

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رفع الملام عن الأئمة الأعلام. كتاب صنفه ابن تيمية، دل عنوانه على مضمونه؛ رفع الملام عن الأئمة الأعلام، ذكر فيه أسباب اختلاف أعلام الأمة في بعض فروع مسائل الفقه الإسلامي، وأن ذلك لا ينقص من قدرهم وقيمتهم، ولم يكن لهوىً في نفوسهم. وقد كان المحرض وراء كتابة هذا الكتاب هو الملامة التي كانت تصدر عن بعض الناس لبعض أعلام الأمة لمخالفتهم بعض أحاديث النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم. فكان هدف هذا الكتاب هو رفع تلك الملامة عنهم، وتبرير موقفهم. فكان لا بد من توضيح الأمر للناس، وأن تلك الملامة قولٌ باطل. ويختص ابن تيمية هنا أعلام الأمة، وليس أي طالب علم قد يخطأ ويتكرر منه الخطأ من نفسه. …

Translation

Lifting blame from eminent imams. A book compiled by Ibn Taymiyyah, whose title indicates its content. He removed the blame from the eminent imams, in which he mentioned the reasons for the disagreement of the nation’s eminent people in some branches of issues of Islamic jurisprudence, and that this does not detract from their value and worth, and was not a whim in their souls. The instigator behind writing this book was the blame that was coming from some people towards some of the nation’s notables for contradicting some of the hadiths of the Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace. The goal of this book was to remove that blame from them and justify their position. It was necessary to clarify the matter to the people, and that this blame was false. Here, Ibn Taymiyyah specializes in the nation’s notable figures, and not any student of knowledge may make a mistake and repeat the mistake on his own. …

Topics covered

Publisher's introduction
Scientists and their associates
Scholars agree on the necessity of following the Messenger
Excuses for not talking
Reasons for abandoning the hadith
The first reason: who has not heard the hadith
The second reason: who has not proven it
The third reason: belief that the hadith is weak
Fourth reason: Commitment to special conditions in adopting it
The fifth reason: forgetting the hadith
The sixth reason: lack of knowledge of the meaning of the hadith
The seventh reason: belief that the hadith has no meaning
The eighth reason: believing that there is an opponent to it
The ninth reason: belief that the hadith opposes something else
The tenth reason: opposing it with evidence of its weakness, abrogation, etc
Reasons we have not seen regarding abandoning the hadith
The error lies in the opinions of scholars, not in the legal evidence
An authentic hadith cannot be contradicted by anyone’s statement
Will a scholar be punished for abandoning a hadith whose authenticity was later proven?
Is it common to measure?
Praying in Banu Qurayza
Bilal sold two sa's of dates for one sa'
Adi bin Hatem’s understanding of the verse about fasting
Fatwa without knowledge
The interpretation that the Messenger of God rejected

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