The Creed Of Ahlul Sunnah

Wal Jammah

Kemal
 Contents

Brief explanation
The Apparent meaning
The Yad
The Face
Istawa
 Brief Explanation
The Creed of ahlul sunnah wal jammah is
the Athari creed. We follow the salaf,the
athar,the quran,the sunnan...
We affirm the attributes of Allah (Glory be
to him) as literal not metaphorical or
anything else we accept all the attributes
and reject none unlike the Jahmiyya
 The Apparent meaning
I using athar will prove that the attributes
of God should be taken with their
apparent meaning.

Abū ῾Abdillāh az-Zubayrī ash-Shāfi῾ī said on

Allāh’s attributes:

We believe in these reports that came,

as they have come, we truly believe in
them, and we do not ask: ‘how?’, but we
stop where it stops and we say about it,
what has been reported as they came.

(al-Radd al-Qawīm ῾alā al-Mujrim al-Athīm

1/307)
Al-Imām Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal said regarding
the ḥadīth of seeing Allah in the hereafter

“Speaking about it (i.e., its modality) is a

bidʿah. Rather, we believe in it as it has
come upon its apparent meaning,and we
don’t argue with someone about it.”

(Uṣūl As-Sunnah page 4)

Al-Dāraquṭni reported Walid ibn Muslim

said:

"I asked al-Awzāī, Mālik ibn Anas, Sufyan

al-Thawrī n and al-Layth ibn Sa'd about the
narrations About the narrations
concerning seeing Allah and similar ones
They said ''Take them as they have came''.
 (Narrated in Al-Shariah by Al-Ajurri (pg.
314), Al-Bayhaqi in Al-Itiqad (pg. 118) and
Ibn Abd al-Barr in al-Tamhid (7/149))

Al-Ḥujjah Sufyān ibn ʿUyaynah Al-Makki

said :

Everything that Allāh has described

Himself with in the Qurʾān, its recitation is
its interpretation, without delving into the
howness nor attributing a likeness.

(Al-Asmāʾ wa As-Sifāt by Al-Bayhaqī,

(2/307)
It is clear from these reports that we take the
Sifat upon their apparent meaning

The Yad
The Messenger of Allāh Said: Al-Jabbār will
take His
Heavens and earths with His two Hands
and he grasped (i.e. closed) his palms,
Or he said: his hands, and he began
opening them and closing them – then He
Will say: ‘I am Al-Malik, I am Al-Jabbār.
Where are the tyrants, where are the
Arrogant oppressors?” And the Messenger
of Allāh leaned to his right and to
His left so much that I looked at the lowest
part of the pulpit, and I verily said (to
Myself): “Will it fall with the Messenger of
Allāh ?”
(Narrated by Muslim in his “Sahīh” (1827).
And it was also narrated by Al-Humaydī in
his
“Musnad” (588), Ahmad in his “Musnad”
(6492), An-Nasāī in his “Sunan” (5394) and
others.)
The Prophet said: Allah will grasp the
earth on the Day of Resurrection, and He
will fold up the
heavens in His right Hand. Then He will
say: ‘I am Al-Malik (the King). Where
are the kings (of earth)?

( Narrated by Al-Bukhārī (6519, 7382),

Muslim (2787), Ibn Mājah (192), Ahmad
(8863) and others. )

The Prophet Said: “Mūsā met Ādam, so

he
Said to him: ‘Are you the one whom Allāh
created with His Hand?”
( Narrated by Al-Bukhārī (4738), Muslim
(2652), Ahmad (7856), ‘Abdur-
Razzāq (20067), An-Nasāī in “Al-Kubrā”
(11266) and Al-Bazzār (7888) by way of Ibn
Shihāb Az-
Zuhrī, from Abū Salamah ibn ‘Abdir-
Rahmān, from Abū Hurayrah.
67 Narrated by Muslim (2759), Ahmad
(19529), At-Tiyālisī (492), Al-Bazzār (8/39)
and Ibn
Khuzaymah in “At-Tawhīd” (1/176))

The Face

“Then there is the Face of Allāh.” (Al-

Baqarah 2:115)
“Everything will be destroyed except His
Face.” (Al-Qasas 28:88)

The Prophet said: Allāh does not sleep,

nor is it suitable for Him to sleep. He
lowers the scales and
raises them. The deeds of the night are
raised to Him before the deeds of the day,
and the deeds of the day before the deeds
of the night. His veil is light. If He
removes it, then the glory of His Face
would burn everything which His Sight
befalls from His creation.
( narrated by Muslim (179))

The Messenger of Allāh used to invoke

(Allāh by saying): “O Allāh, I verily ask
You for the pleasure of looking at Your
Face.

( Narrated by An-Nasāī
(3/54) and in “Al-Kubrā” (1228, Ibn Hibbān
(1971), Ibn Abī ‘Āsim in “As-Sunnah” (129,
425), Al-
Bazzār (1393), ‘Abdullāh ibn Ahmad in “As-
Sunnah” (279) )

Istawa

Al-Awzāʿī said:
“We and all of the Tābiʿīn used to say that
Allāh is above His Throne and we believe
in that which is present in the Sunnah
regarding his attributes.

(Narrated in Al-Asmāʾ Wa Aṣ-Ṣifāt of Al-

Bayhaqī, Vol 1, Page 304)

Malik Ibn Anas said:

Imān is speech and action, and Allāh

spoke to Mūsā and Allāh is above the
heaven and His Knowledge is in every
place; nowhere is free from it.
 (Narrated in Kitab As-Sunnah by Al-Imām
ʿAbdullāh, Pg 268 (found also in p. 106 and
280)]
[Also reported by Abu Dawud al-Sijistani in
Masā’il Ahmad (p. 353) and by al-Ājuri in
Ash-Shariʿah (vol. 3 / p. 1076-1077))

Al-Muzanī said:

"A person's Tawheed is not valid until he

knows that Allah is above the throne with
His Attributes"

(Narrated in Siyar A'lam al-Nubala' Vol 12 page

494)

Aisha said
By Allah, I fear that if I were to want him -
meaning 'Uthmaan to be killed, then I would
be killed. But Allah knows from above His
Throne that I did not want him to be killed.

(Narrated in Al Rad Ala Al Jahmiyya 35 by Al

Darimi)

__Abu Hanifa: „Allah is above the Arsh in the

heavens and whoever doubts this is a kaffir!

(Sharhut-Tahawiyyah. Page: 288)

Imam Malik ibn Anas said: Allah is above the

heavens, but His knowledge encompasses
everything“

(Narrated in Al-Arsh 2/180)

Ibn Idris Ash Shafi said: Allah is above His ’Arsh
above the heavens.

(Narrated in Al-Juyoosh al-Islamiyyah, Page:

93)

Ahmad ibn hanbal said: He (Allah) is above

His ’Arsh...

(Narrated in al-Juyoosh al-Islamiyyah, Page

123)