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( This was a necessary duty ) inasmuch as the articles of the law could only be " known from the Koran and from the Traditions which serve to explain it . " The blessed Prophet himself said : I leave with you two things which , as long ...
( This was a necessary duty ) inasmuch as the articles of the law could only be " known from the Koran and from the Traditions which serve to explain it . " The blessed Prophet himself said : I leave with you two things which , as long ...
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... some of the most distinguished masters of the epoch . Were this treatise less known , I should have felt it indispensable to insert an extract from it here , but it has been rendered xiv INTRODUCTION .
... some of the most distinguished masters of the epoch . Were this treatise less known , I should have felt it indispensable to insert an extract from it here , but it has been rendered xiv INTRODUCTION .
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( 5 ) Abū Abd Allah Bishr Ibn Bakr at - Tinnīsi as - Shāmi ( a native of Tinnis and sprung from a family which inhabited Damascus ) is known as a Traditionist . He studied under al - Awzāī and died towards the end of A. H. 205 ( A. D. ...
( 5 ) Abū Abd Allah Bishr Ibn Bakr at - Tinnīsi as - Shāmi ( a native of Tinnis and sprung from a family which inhabited Damascus ) is known as a Traditionist . He studied under al - Awzāī and died towards the end of A. H. 205 ( A. D. ...
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He composed a number of well- known works on jurisprudence , and was also a Traditionist . Yūnus Ibn Abd al - Aala ( 5 ) , one of the imām as - Shāfi's disciples , relates as follows : The khalif wrote to Ibn Wahb , desiring him to ...
He composed a number of well- known works on jurisprudence , and was also a Traditionist . Yūnus Ibn Abd al - Aala ( 5 ) , one of the imām as - Shāfi's disciples , relates as follows : The khalif wrote to Ibn Wahb , desiring him to ...
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Al- Kaffal died in the year 417 ( A. D. 1026-7 ) , at the age of ninety , and was buried in Sijistān , where his tomb is still well known and continues to be visited as a place of sanctity . ( 1 ) For as - Sinji's life , see vol .
Al- Kaffal died in the year 417 ( A. D. 1026-7 ) , at the age of ninety , and was buried in Sijistān , where his tomb is still well known and continues to be visited as a place of sanctity . ( 1 ) For as - Sinji's life , see vol .
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Page 544 - I delight in testifying my profound respect for the sayings of the Apostle of God," was his explanation, " and I never repeat a tradition unless I feel myself in a state of perfect purity.
Page 546 - How should I not weep? and who has more reason to weep than I? Would to God that for every question decided by me according to my own opinion I had received so many stripes! then would my accounts be easier. Would to God I had never given any decision of my own...
Page 406 - Towards the close of his life, al-Jahiz had an attack of palsy, and one of his sides was so much inflamed, that he had to rub it with sandal-ointment and camphor, whilst the latter was so cold and benumbed, that, were it seized with pincers, it had been inseusible.
Page 638 - ... twenty of you persevere with constancy they shall overcome two hundred, and if there be one hundred of you they shall overcome a thousand of those who believe not; because they are a people which do not understand.
Page 599 - The descent is intelligible ; the manner how is unknown ; the belief therein is obligatory, and the asking about it is a blamable innovation.
Page 633 - Pronounce not thy prayer aloud, neither pronounce it with too low a voice,' but follow a middle way between these : and say, Praise be unto GOD, who hath not begotten any child ; who hath no partner in the kingdom, nor hath any to protect him from contempt: and magnify him by proclaiming his greatness.
Page 226 - They who know me, know who I am, as for those who do not know me, I shall tell them : I am Ali ibn Isma'il al-Asha'ri, and I used to hold that the Koran was created, that the eyes (of men) shall not see God, and that we ourselves are the authors of our evil deeds ; now I have returned to the truth, I renounce these opinions and I take the engagement to refute the Mu'tazilites and expose their infamy and turpitude.
Page vi - The articles of the law, or, in other terms, the commandments and prohibitions of God, were then borne (not in books but) in the hearts of men, who knew that these maxims drew their origin from the Book of God and from the practice (sunnah) of the Prophet himself. The people, at that time, consisted of Arabs wholly ignorant of the mode by which learning is taught, of the art of composing works and of the means by which knowledge is enregistered; for to these points they had not hitherto directed...
Page 386 - All, generally known by the appellation of Ibn al-Farid and distniguished by the honorary title of al- Sharaf1 drew his descent from a family which inhabited Hamat, but he himself was born in Egypt, which was also the country of his residence, and that of his death. In his poetical works, of which the collection...
Page 633 - Koran, and hath not inserted therein any crookedness, but hath made it a straight rule : that he should threaten a grievous punishment unto the unbelievers from his presence ; and should bear good tidings unto the faithful, who work righteousness, that they...