Tawheed

- Quotes of the Salaf

Malik Bin Anas:

"It is impossible that the Prophet (sallal lahu alae he wasallam) taught his Ummah how to clean themselves after
going to the toilet but not about Tawheed"
(As-siyar 10/26)

Mlik said:
"Allaah is above the heaven and His knowledge is everywhere"
al-Istiw all-Arsh, p. 50-52

Hrn Rashd - one of Bagdads Khalifahs on year 200 after Hijrah - said:
"I looked after four and I found them in four; I Looked after Kufr and I found it in Jahmiyyah. I looked after 'Ilm ul
Kalaam and I found it in Mu'tazilah. I looked after lies and I found it in Rafidhah. I looked after the truth and I found
it in Ahl-ul-Hadeeth"
(Sharaf Ashhb-il-Hadth, p. 75, by Imm al-Khatb al-Baghdd)

Abdul-Wahhb bin Abdil-Hakam (d. 251), Ab Dwd's teacher, said:

"the one who says that Allaah is here, he is a filthy Jahmee. Allaah is certainly above His Throne and His
Knowledge comprehends everything in this life and in the life after this"
(al-Istiw all-Arsh, p. 57-66 by Imm Shams-ud-Dn bin Abdil-Hd al-Maqdis (d. 744))

Narrated Anas:
Allaah's Apostle ('Alayhi salaatu wa salaam) said:
"Whenever anyone of you invoke Allah for something, he should be firm in his asking, and he should not say: 'If
You wish, give me...' for none can compel Allah to do something against His Will."
(Bukhri 9/556)

Imaam Abuu Bakr al-Aajuree:

"This is the methodology of the scholars. These descriptions (Attributes of Allaah) should not be questioned.
Rather one should subject oneself to them and believe that Allaah ('Azza wa jall) laughs."
(ash-Shareeah, p. 283)

Imaam Abuu Bakr al Aajuree commented on:

Abu Hurayrah (radhiya Allaahu 'anh) narrated that Allaah's apostle (sallaa Allaahu 'alayhi wa sallam) said:
When any one of you fights his brother, let him avoid the face, for Allaah certainly created Adam in His image.
(Muslim, bukhaaree, and others)
Abu Hurayrah said:
"Allaah ('Azza wa jall) certainly created Aadam in His image."
The Muslims are obliged to believe in these narrations, and it should not be said "How?" or "Why?". It is
obligatory to take them with submission and confirmation, without researching into them. This has been said by
the early Imaams."

(ash-Sharee'ah, p. 319)
Abuu 'Abdillaah az-Zubayree:
"We believe in them (These Ahadeeth) with a true belief, without questioning them. However we stay where they
stopped. So therefor, we say (in this question) what the narrations have said."
(ash-Sharee'ah, p. 320)

Allaah's apostle (Sallaa Allaahu 'alayhi wa sallam) said:

"The hearts of everybody are certainly between the Two Fingers of Ar-Rahmaan ." (Muslim, Ahmad, others)
Bishr bin al-Haarith said (About this Hadeeth):
"Jahmiyyah treat these Ahadeeth arrogantly."
(ash-Sharee'ah, p. 321)

al-Bukhaaree reported in his as-Saheeh":

"You shall certainly see your Lord with your eyes."
(Tafseer al-Quraan al-Adheem (4/578))

Ibnul-Qayyim:
"Sincerity and Tawheed is like a tree in the heart. Its branches are actions and its fruits is to live happy in this life
and eternal happiness in the next life. Shirk, lies and Riya is like a tree in the heart. Its fruits in this life is fear,
anxiety, a constricted chest and a dark heart. It's fruits in the life after this is eternal punishment. Allaah has
mentioned both of these trees in Surah Ibraheem."
(al-Fawaid p.216)

Ibn Abee Daawood:

"Say that the Almighty descends every night to the first heaven, without imagining itthis has been reported by
people whos Ahadeeth are not rejected. Lost and Cursed are those who accuse them for lying."
(al-Haaiyyah, p. 45)

al-Bukhaaree said:
Abool-Aaliyyah said about:
"thereafter He rose Himself "ilaa" heaven..."
"Which means ascended."
al-Bukhaaree: "Mujaahid said: "Risen Himself above the Throne"
(al-Jaami' al-Musnad (7418))

al-Bukhaaree wrote:
"Wahb bin Jareer said: "Jahmiyyah are apostates and they want nothing other than to say that Allaah did not rise
above the Throne."
(Khalq Afaal-il-Ibaad p.30)

al-Bukhr:
Ibn Abbs said:
"The voice came from the heaven when Allaah spoke with Moosa, and Allaah was above the heaven."
(Khalq Afaal-il-Ibaad p.41)

Shaykh-il-Islaam Ibn Taymiyyah:

"Learn such as Ahmad, Ibn Rahuyyah, Hammad bin Zayd, Uthman ad-Darimi and others opinion is that Allh
descends without leaving the Throne."
(Sharh Nuzul p. 201)

Shaykh-ul-Islm Ibn Qayyim-il-Jawziyyah:

"The correct opinion in this question are those who neither say this or that (I.e. that he leaves the throne or not);
They say what the evidences say and they are silent about that which is not mentioned."
(Mukhtasar-us-Sawa'iq 2/256)

Allaah (Jalla Shanuh) said (as recorded in Saheeh al-Bukhaaree):

"O Prophet ! We have sent you as a witness (for Allah's True religion) And a giver of glad tidings (to the faithful
believers), And a warner (to the unbelievers) And guardian of the illiterates. You are My slave and My messenger
(i.e. Apostle). I have named you "Al-Mutawakkil" (who depends upon Allah). You are neither discourteous, harsh
Nor a noisemaker in the markets And you do not do evil to those Who do evil to you, but you deal With them with
forgiveness and kindness. Allah will not let him (the Prophet) Die till he makes straight the crooked people by
making them say: "None has the right to be worshipped but Allah," With which will be opened blind eyes And deaf
ears and enveloped hearts."
(Bukhari B3 V34 H335)

Shaykh-ul-Islm Ibn Taymiyyah:

"And from the belief in Allaah is that one believes in that which He described Himself with in His Book and that
which His Messenger Muhammad (sallaa Allaahu 'Alayhi wa sallam) described Him with, without Tahreef
(distorting the meaning) or Ta'teel (denying its original meaning) and without Takyeef (describing) or Tamtheel
(likening with the creation)."
(Sharh-ul-'Aqeedat-il-Waastiyyah p. 15)

Imaam al-Khattaabee:
"Salafs Aqeedah with the Attributes is to confirm them and believe in their apparent meaning. Without imagining
them or comparing them with the creation."
(Sharh-ul-'Aqeedat-il-Waastiyyah p. 38)

'Abdul Qaadir al-Jaylani:

"Allaah's rising over the Throne has been revealed in every Book which was sent to a Prophet."
(al-Ghunyah, p.96)

The Prophet ('Alayhi salaatu wa salaam) said:

"Thereafter Jibreel ascended all the way until he came to Allaah who was on His place."
(al-Bukharee # 5716)

adh-Dhahabee:
"The phrase "Allaah descends to the lowest heaven" has been reported by 20 companions."
(al-'Arsh 2/82)

Shaykh-ul-Islm Ibn Taymiyyah:

"It is not allowed to pray on cemeteries because it leads to shirk."
(al-Minhaj 2/439)

Muhammad bin Alee ash-Shawkaanee:

"Via this short speech we have mentioned, you realise that Salaf's understanding, amongst the sahaabah, the
followers and the followers after them, was based upon mentioning the Attributes according to their apparent
description(al Dhhirih) without distorting or misinterpreting any of them. They also didnt consider the creation
to not have it's own will."
(at-Tuhaf fee Madhaahib-is-Salaf, p. 5)

The prophet, alayhis-salam:

"A people will come who will ask questions to eachother until one of them say "Allaah has created this, but who
created Allaah?" If they say this, then you should say: "Say: He is Allaah - One..."." (al-Ikhlaas: 1-4).
(Aboo Dawood 4732 - Hasan according to al-Albaanee)

Abu Hurayrah:
"I swear by Allaah that I sat one day when an Iraaqi came and said "Allaah has created this, but who has created
Allaah?" I put my fingers into my ears and screamed and said;
"Allaah and his Messenger has spoken the truth. He is Allaah - One...(I.e reciting)"
(Muslim 212 and Ahmad 2/387)

ibn-ul-Qayyim:
"To bow when one greets is the same as sujood (prostration)."
(at-Tibb an-Nabawi, p.148)

al-Khattabi:
"Allh's name "at-Tawwab" means: He who accepts His slave's Tawbah (repentance) every time they repent."
(al-Asma', p. 99)

al-Khattbi:
"Allh's name "al-Majeed" means He who is much Generous."
(al-Asma', p. 57)

al-Bayhaqi:
"Allh's name "al-Latif" is He who wants goodness and ease for His believing servants."
(al-Asma', p. 83)

al-Bukhr:
al-Fudhayl bin Iyaadh said:
"If a Jahmee says to you that he doesn't believe in a Lord Who descends from His place, then you should say to
him that you believe in a Lord Who does whatever He wants."
(Khalq Afaal-il-Ibaad p. 36)

Bukhari Book 5, Volume 57, Hadith # 19:

"Abu Bakr praised and glorified Allah and said, No doubt! Whoever worshipped Muhammad, then Muhammad is
dead, but whoever worshipped Allah, then Allah is Alive and shall never die." Then he recited Allah's Statement.:-"(O Muhammad) Verily you will die, and they also will die."

Ibn Taymiyyah:
"Ahmad's words in Usul-us-Sunnah; "The Sunnah is not understood by the intellect" means: "all sunnah is not
understood by the intellect", if all sunnah had been understood by the intellect, then the human intellect would
have been as the prophets."
(Al-'aql wan-Naql 9/51)

Ibn Qayyim:
Allh says to His servant:
"Whenever you want Me, ask Me to come. Send for Me from yourself and you will find Me near you and do not
ask Me to come through another servant, as I am more near to you than the other."
(al-Fawaa'id, p.117)

al-Baqilani:
"Allaah has risen Himself over the Throne in the way He said He did... He has allways been described with Life,
Knowledge, Power, Hearing, Sight, Speech, Will, Face, Hands, Eyes, Anger and Pleasure."
(al-'Arsh 2/337)

al-Waleed bin Muslim said:

"I asked Maalik, ath-Thawree, al-Layth and al-Awzaa'ee about the narrations which are about the Attributes (of
Allaah), and all of them said: "Let them pass as they have been mentioned."
(Siyar Alaam-in-Nubalaa (8/164))

at-Tirmidhee:
"One should believe in them (Attributes of Allaah) without imagining or questioning them."
(al-Jaami (659))

Muhammad bin Alee ash-Shawkaanee:

"If anybody asked about a particular Attribute (of Allaah), they read the daleel for him without going into vain talk."
(at-Tuhaf fee Madhaahib-is-Salaf, p. 5)

"The Lebanese Usamah al-Qassas was 21 years old when Ahbash killed him because he wrote a book about
Allh's rising (Above the throne)."
(shn 360)

Mu'aadh ibn Jabal reported that the Messenger of Allah (Sall Allhu 'alayhi wa sallam) said:
"The key to Paradise is the testimony of 'None has the right to be worshipped but Allah (Laa ilaaha illAllaah)."
(Related by Al-Hasan ibn 'Arafah)

The Prophet ('alayhi salaatu wa salaam):

"I feel the breath of The Merciful Coming from Yemen." (Ahmad, Musnad ll: 7:541)
Commentary by Ibn Taymiyyah:
"...The words "Coming from yemen" are sufficent to indicate what it actually means. Obviously Yemen has n o
special relation to Allh's attributes; this is clear to everyone. What the hadith means is, that from yemen will
come a people whom Allh will love and they love him. People about whom he has said (in 5:54);
"O you who have believed, whoever of you should revert from his religion - Allah will bring forth [in place of them]
a people He will love and who will love Him"
It has been reported that when this verse was revealed, the Prophet was asked about them. He said that (these
people) are the people of Aboo Moosaa al-Ash'aree. This has been indicated in some other authentic Ahadeeth
such as;
"The people of Yemen coming to you have a loving and noble heart. The faith is Yemeni, as is wisdom Yemeni."
(al-Bukhaaree, Muslim, at-Tirmidhee, ad-Daarimee, ahmad..)
They fought the people who had apostatized after the Prophet to their former faith, and conquered countries with
their swords. Allaah removed through them the calamities which had befallen the faithful. Some people think that
these Ahadeeth 'Uways (al-Qaraani), but this is far from being correct."
(Fataawaa 6:397-8)

Ibn Taymiyyah:
"Tawheed ar-Ruboobiyyah is to believe and affirm that Allaah is the Lord, the Creator and Ruler of all there is.
This is the Tawheed which the Theologians try to establish (while ignoring the other categories), well as the one
whose perception (in experience) various groups of Soofees set as their goal. but this Tawheed will not gualify
anyone as Muslim, not to say a friend (walee) of Allaah, unless he also affirms the unity of Godhead (Tawheed alIlaahiyyah), that is to say, unless he witnesses that no one is worthy of 'Ibaadah, Worship and absolute obedience
other than Allaah, and that Muhammed ('Alayhi salaatu wa salaam) is His Messenger."
(Fataawaa 3:98)