The approach of the Prophet’s Sunnah in refuting the words of the Qadari Shiites

منهاج السنة النبوية في نقض كلام الشيعة والقدرية هو كتاب ضخم من تأليف الفقيه السنّي ابن تيمية، ويعد هذا الكتب من أشهر مؤلّفاته على الإطلاق، ويشتمل على الرد على الشيعة الإثني عشرية وفرقة القدريّة، وقد كتبه في الأصل رداً على كتاب الفقيه الشيعي المعروف ابن المطهر الحلي منهاج الكرامة.

Topics covered

• The curriculum of the Prophet’s Sunnah
• Author's introduction
• Book sermon
• The reason why Ibn Taymiyyah wrote the book
• Prohibition of concealing knowledge
• General talk about the Rafidah
• Similar to the Jews and Christians
• Some Shiite foolishness
• The Rafidah are the most misguided people regarding what is reasonable and what is transmitted
• The Rafidites are the most lying sects
• The reliance of the late Imamis on the Mu’tazilites in matters of reasoning
• Introduction chapter of Ibn al-Mutahhar’s book
• Invalidating the words of Ibn al-Mutahhar in many ways
• The first aspect: Faith in God and His Messenger is more important than the issue of imamate
• The Shiite saying that the Imamate is the most important and the response to that
• Discussion of the awaited imam according to the Shiites
• The third aspect, according to the Rafidites, is that imamate does not achieve kindness or interest
• The fourth aspect: Dignity is not attained simply by knowing the Imam
• The fifth aspect: Imamate is not one of the pillars of faith
• The sixth aspect of the hadith that Ibn al-Mutahhar cites has no basis
• The seventh aspect: There is no evidence for imamate in the hadith
• The eighth aspect of the hadith is evidence against them
• The ninth aspect is the command to obey the imams in matters other than disobedience
• The second aspect is the completeness of the Imami’s statement regarding fate
• The third aspect, according to them, is that imamate does not bring about kindness