Re: Attributes of Allah - The Belief Of True Salaf
Check out the following link to read what Ibn Taymiyyah - raheemahullaah - said about Hell and Paradise:
Ibn Taymiyyah was asked about the hadeeth of Anas bin Maalik, from the Messenger, sallallahu 'alayhi wa salam said: ‘Seven never die or end or taste termination: hellfire and its people, the lawh (preserved-tablet), the pen, the kursee and the throne’. So is this an authentic hadeeth or no?
He answered: This narration with this wording is not from the saying of the Messenger, but rather it is the saying of some of the scholars, and the Salaf of this nation, and its scholars, and the rest of Ahl as-Sunnah wal-Jamaa’ah are of the view that some of the creation never terminates fully, like paradise, hellfire, the throne and other things, **and no one believes that all things terminate except a group of the people of kalaam, the innovators, like Jahm bin Safwaan and whoever agrees with him of the Mu’tazilah and their likes. **This is an incorrect opinion, and is in contrary to the book of Allah, and the sunnah of His Messenger, and the consensus of the Salaf and their scholars, and there is a lot of evidence supportive of the fact that paradise and other creation remain existent, that I cannot mention in this paper, and there is a group of the people of kalaam and the philosophers who oppose the view of termination of all creation with some intellectual evidences, and Allah knows best
Majmoo’ al-Fataawaa Ibn Taymiyyah: 18/307