🕌Hadith Commentary (Sharh)
The mandate of God and the path to it
ولاية الله والطريق إليها
Author: محمد بن علي بن محمد بن عبد الله الشوكاني اليمني (المتوفى: 1250هـ) (d. 1250)
About this work
هذا كتاب للإمام الشوكاني في شرح حديث "من عادى لي ولياً"، يندرج تحت تصنيف شروح الحديث. يبحث المؤلف في مفهوم ولاية الله، ويبين من هو الولي، وطبقات الأولياء، وصفاتهم، ويميز بين الكرامات والخوارق، معتمداً على الكتاب والسنة في تقرير مسائل الولاية، ناقداً لبعض المفاهيم كالتقليد والباطنية.
Translation
This is a book by Imam Al-Shawkani explaining the hadith “Whoever is hostile to my guardian,” and it falls under the classification of explanations of the hadith. The author examines the concept of God’s guardianship, explains who the guardian is, the classes of saints, and their attributes, distinguishes between miracles and supernatural things, relying on the Qur’an and Sunnah in deciding issues of guardianship, criticizing some concepts such as tradition and esotericism.
Topics covered
- The diameter of the guardian according to the hadith of the guardian = God’s guardianship and the path to it
- presentation
- Chapter one
- Who is the guardian?
- The best saints
- Classes of saints
- Saints other than prophets are not infallible
- The criterion for accepting facts and revelations
- The possibility of revelations occurring
- It is the duty of the guardian regarding the actions he performs
- Paranormal other than saints
- The correct revealers and the guardians of the believers
- The character of the guardian
- Permissibility of Karamat
- When is the supernatural a dignity?
- Hostility from the guardian, as you can imagine
- Return to the state scale
- Seconism and religious matters in the Holy Qur’an
- Destiny and denying the disobedient’s invocation of it
- The principle of esotericism and how they did it
- The Rafidah’s hatred of the Companions is intended to destroy the Sunnah
- Share of working scientists from the state
- Reasons for the establishment of scholars working in the state
- The reality of imitation and imitation and their ruling
- Imitation in the eyes of science and knowledge