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بِسْمِ ٱللَّهِ ٱلرَّحمَـٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ This is a revised and updated version of one of my earlier threads from a few years ago, regarding the (false) claim that the Madhab of the Hanbalis was Tafwidh al-Ma‘na until ibn Taymiyyah came along.

What makes this absolute gem of retardation even funnier is that ibn Taymiyyah was arguably one of the most moderate and accomodating of the Hanbalis regarding the Ash‘aris, whereas before him, many charged the Ash‘aris with either bid’ah, or even outright kufr. One only needs to read the works of "Most Hanbalis before ibn Taymiyyah" to gauge their view on Ahl az-Zaygh wa al-Bid’ah, from the likes of al-Barbahari, ibn Battah, ibn Mandah, al-Ahwazi, ibn al-Banna, Abu al-Faraj, al-Harawi, ‘Abd al-Ghani and ibn Qudamah al-Maqdisi and many more, and how they either directly or indirectly address and criticise and refute core Ash‘ari doctrines, often levelling takfir and zandaqah at those who hold said beliefs. But in Ash‘ari/Neo-Hanbali dreamland, all of the students of Imam Ahmad were Mujassimah (but he wasn't), the Tamimis and ibn al-Jawzi are indicative of Imam Ahmads true beliefs, and every other Hanbali (the overwhelming majority) were just misguided or all of them were somehow pro-Ash‘ari (pure revisionism of history), until ibn Taymiyyah came along and somehow made everyone a Mujassim and created his own ‘Aqidah and somehow even though the leading Ash‘ari jurists who took him to trial cleared him of charges of Tajsim several times but other Ash‘aris since then have had more enlightenment as to ibn Taymiyyah's “Tajsim” that their own ‘Ulama did not.

MashaAllah, the torchbearer of the Sunnah, the mujaddid of islam of this century, the esteemed scholar, the Imam Ahmad of today, the faqih, the muhaddith, the Shaykh Al Akbar, none other than Abu Khadeeja Abdul Wahid Awal As Salaf.

Shaykh Muhammed Ayyub

May Allah accept all our good deeds done on the 15th of Sha‘ban.

Defending Haqiqatjou with every breath and tweet for a couple hundred takas is nuts.

Shaykh al-Islam ibn Qudamah al-Maqdisi (d. 620 H.) writes regarding the spurious claim that Ahl as-Sunnah seem to be guilty of ta’wil at times: ‘If it is said: “But you yourselves have made ta’wil of some verses and reports, since you say concerning -

𝗔 𝗴𝘂𝗶𝗱𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝘁𝘂𝗱𝘆𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘁𝗿𝘂𝗲 𝗛𝗮𝗻𝗯𝗮𝗹𝗶 ‘𝗔𝗾𝗶𝗱𝗮𝗵 This is a thread on some of the ‘Aqidah works authored by the Hanbalis that would be suitable for the beginner to intermediate student of knowledge. My methodology in selecting these works -