About the Book
This document is an online book publication of Al-Ibaanah Ebooks, and was formatted and designed specifically for being placed free on the Internet. This is a translation of the class treatise Lum’at-ul-Itiqaad (Sufficiency in Creed) of the great Imam, Abu Muhammad Muwaffaq-ud-Deen Ibn Qudaamah Al-Maqdisee, may Allah swt’s mercy be upon him.
In this book, Imam Ibn Qudaamah presents the Creed of the Salaf as is the custom of the scholars of Ahlus-Sunnah Wal-Jamaa’ah in every century, to preserve the authentic Creed by way of writing it down in books and spreading it. So this Creed became well known amongst the scholars and studied in the gatherings of knowledge. Infact the treatise continues to be studied and reviewed by students of knowledge throughout the world.
This book was explained in recent times by Imaam Muhammad bin Saalih Al-‘Uthaymeen and assigned for study by the Board of Educational Institutes in Saudi Arabia. All footnotes and hadeeth verifications were extracted in abridged form from Ashraf bin ‘Abdil-Maqsood’s checking of Imaam Ibn Al-Uthaimeen’s explanation of ‘Sufficiency in Creed’.
We ask Allah to make this treatise a benefit for the students of Knowledge to study and acquire understanding of their religion.
About the Author – Ibn Qudamah
Muwaffaq al-Din ‘Abd Allah ibn Ahmad ibn Qudamah al-Maqdisi al-Hanbali was a reputable scholar of the Hanbali madhhab, author of ”Al-Mughni’, (the main Hanbali ‘fiqh” manual) as well as ‘Mukhtasar Minhaj Al-Qasidin’ (a summary of Ghazali’s ‘Ihya ulum ad-din’) and ”Tahrim an-Nazar’ (‘Censure of Speculative Theology’), an attack on Ibn_Aqil’s rationalist views.
He was born in Palestine in 541 AH, where he became Hafidh of the Qur’an at an early age and moved to Baghdad where he stuidied under some established scholars such as Shaykh Abdul-Qadir in his final days (i.e. before he passed away), Ibn Al-Jawzi, Hibat-ullaah Ibn Al-Hasan Ad-Daqaaq, Abi’l Fath Ibn Al-Battee, Abi Zur’ah Ibn Taahir, Yahya Ibn Thaabit, Khadeejah An-Nahrawaaniyah and others. The Noble Imaam of Al-Hanabilah in Damascus Mosque died in Damascus In the Year 620 Hijri.
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