Re: The great Mujahid, Abu Ayoub Al-Ansariy..
this is for you blindfollowers. May Allah Guide you to the truth.
Shakyh ul Islam Ibn Taymiyyah followed th madhab of the Salaf so why wud he contradict is madhab by claiming what you loy say he does abt Allah's attributes??
Another unfounded allegation thrown in the direction of ibn Taymiyyah is that he considered Allaah to be a body (jism). This ancient argument has, sadly, also been repeated by Kabbani in our time as well as Hasan as-Saqqaaf who wrote in his notes to Daf' Shubhah at-Tashbeeh (pp. 245-246): "
Entering into this category is al-Harraanee (ibn Taymiyyah)... who has affirmed a jism (body) for Allaah in many of his books. From this is his saying in at-Ta'sees (1/101): 'There is not in the Book of Allaah, nor in the Sunnah of His Messenger, nor a statement from any one of the Salaf of this Ummah and its Imaams that He is not a body, and that His Attributes are not bodily, consisting of organs...'"
The falsity of as-Saqqaaf's allegations can be explained in the following ways:
i. The previously mentioned quote that he ascribed to ibn Taymiyyah is not from his own words. Rather, ibn Taymiyyah was quoting the saying of the people of kalaam (theological rhetoric) in explanation of their views. However, in order to bring about his accusation, as-Saqqaaf conveniently omitted the beginning of ibn Taymiyyah's words where he began by saying: "They say...."!
How ludicrous then are the words of Kabbani:
"We warn the reader not to be deceived by the disclaimer invoked by some of Ibn Taymiyya's admirers that he did not really hold all these beliefs but merely quoted them in his review of the positions of those he criticised."
(Kabbani, p.66)
ii. Ibn Taymiyyah has repeatedly spoken against describing Allaah as a body or with organs:
"Indeed, the term body (jism), organs ('arad), extent (mutahayyiz) and their like are all newly-invented terminologies. We have mentioned many a time before that the Salaf and the Imaams have not spoken about such things, neither by way of a negation nor by way of affirmation. Rather, they declared those who spoke about such matters to be innovators and went to great lengths to censure them."
(refer to ibn Taymiyyah, Majmoo' al-Fataawaa 3/306-310 and 13/304-305, Minhaajus-Sunnah an-Nabawiyah 2/134-135, 192, 198-200 and 567)
iii. Ibn Taymiyyah also wrote in Sharh Hadeeth an-Nuzool (p. 71) that describing Allaah as a body is:
"An innovation in the Sharee'ah, a corruption of the language and a contradiction to the intellect. Rather, it is repudiated by the Sharee'ah, the language and the intellect
now where are arguements?