al-ʻAqāʼid al-Islāmiyya

Islamic Creeds and related materials


 

Ahmad ibn Hanbal. 
  • A Shorter Hanbalite Creed. 
  • A Longer Hanbalite Creed

The Creed of Imam al-Tahawi

Ṭaḥāwī, Abu Ja`far Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Salamah ibn `Abd al-Mālik (239- 321 AH = c. 853-933 CE)

  • ʻAqīdah. Al-Ṭaḥāwī: For Commentaries see Sezgin and below... 

  • Sharḥ al-`Aqīdah al-Ṭaḥāwīyah / ḥaqqaqahā wa-rāja`ahā jamā`ah min al-`ulamā' ; kharraja aḥādīthahā Muḥammad Nāṣir al-Dīn al-Albānī. Beirut + Dimashq : al-Maktab al-Islāmī, 1404/ 1984. ‬ 536pp.

  • al-`Aqīdah al-Ṭaḥāwīyah / sharḥ wa ta`līq Muḥammad Nāṣir al-Dīn al-Albānī ; i`dād wa taqdīm Zuhayr al-Shāwīsh. Beirut : al-Maktab al-Islāmī, 1414/ ‬1993. 88pp.

  • Taqrīb wa-tartīb Sharḥ al-`Aqīdah al-Ṭaḥāwīyah : li-Ibn Abī al-`Izz al-Ḥanafī / rattabahu wa-`allaqa `alayhi Khālid Fawzī `Abd al-Ḥamīd Ḥamzah.  3 vols. ‬  Jiddah : Maktabat al-Ḍiyā' ; Makkah : Dār al-Tarbiyah wa-al-Turāth, 1417/ ‬1997.

  • The Creed of al-Tahawi. trans. Hamza Yusuf. Rumi Bookstore;  2007.  ISBN-10: 097028439X ISBN-13: 978-0970284396

al-Wāsiṭī, 

 

Ibn Taymiyya, Aḥmad ibn `Abd al-Ḥalīm ibn `Abd al-Salām ( XXXX/XXXX = 1263-1328 CE).

  • al-ʻAqīdah al-wāsiṭīyah : maʻa ʻaqīdah al-salaf / Ibn Taymīyah ; yaqaddamuhā Muṣṭafá al-ʻĀlam.
    Dimishq : Maṭbūʻāt Dār al-Thaqāfah lil-Ṭibāʻah wa-al-Nashr, 1385/ 1965. 112pp.‬

  • Sharḥ al-`Aqīdah al-wāsiṭīyah li-shaykh al-Islām Aḥmad ibn `Abd al-Ḥalīm ibn `Abd al-Salām Ibn Taymīyah / ta'līf Muḥammad Khalīl Harrās ; ḍabṭ naṣsahu wa kharaja aḥādīthahu `Alawī ibn `Abd al-Qādir al-Saqqāf. Wa-yalīh, Mulḥaq al-Wāsiṭīyah. al-Riyāḍ : Dar al-Hijrah lil-Nashr wa-al-Tawzī`, 1415/1995.  ‬ 359pp.

  • Sharḥ al-`Aqīdah al-wāsiṭīyah li-shaykh al-Islām Aḥmad ibn Taymīyah / ta'līf Salih ibn Fawzān ibn `Abd-Allāh al-Fawzān...  al-Riyāḍ : al-Maktab`ah al-Ma`ārif lil-Nashr wa'l-Tawzī`, 1419/1999.  217pp. *

  • al-Waṣīyah al-kubrá fī al-`aqīdah wa'-al-daʻwah lil-Muslimīn : jamāʻāt wa-afrādan. taḥqīq wa-ta`līq `Alī Ḥasan `Alī `Abd al-Ḥamīd. Published `Ammān, al-Urdun : Dār `Ammar, 1407/1986. 95pp.

  • al-Wasṭīyah / li-Shaykh al-Islām Ibn Taymīyah ; al-jam` wa-al-tartīb wa-al-`ināyah li-Abī al-Faḍl `Abd al-Salām ibn Muḥammad ibn `Abd al-Karīm. Cairo : Dār al-Futūḥ al-Islāmīyah, 1416 /1995. 134pp.‬ ‬

Ibn `Abd al-Barr, Yūsuf ibn `Abd Allāh, (        = c. 978-1071).

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al-Ghuṣn, Sulaymān ibn Ṣāliḥ ibn `Abd al-`Azīz:

  • [MA thesis] `Aqīdat al-Imām Ibn `Abd al-Barr fī al-tawḥīd wa-al-īmān : `arḍan wa-dirāsatan al-Riyāḍ : Dār al-`Āṣimah lil-Nashr wa-al-Tawzī`, 1416/ ‬1996. 654pp.

 

علي بن علي بن محمد بن أبي العز الدمشقي

Ibn Abī al-`Izz, `Alī ibn `Alī ibn Muḥammad ibn Abī al-ʻIzz al-Dimashqī(          = c.1330-1390 CE).

 

  • شرح العقيدة الطحاوية = Sharḥ al-ʻAqīdah al-Ṭaḥāwīyah. Mecca: al-Matba`ah al-Salafiyya, 1349/1930. Uncritical edition based on a single mss.

  • شرح العقيدة الطحاوية   ؛ حققه وعلق عليه وخرج أحاديثه وقدم له عبد الله بن عبد المحسن التركي, شعيب الأرناؤوط. Beirut : Muʼassasat al-Risālah, 1418/ ‬1998‪. =

  • Sharḥ al-ʻAqīdah al-Ṭaḥāwīyah / taʼlīf ʻAlī ibn ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn Abī al-ʻIzz al-Dimashqī; ḥaqqaqa huwa-ʻallaqa ʻalayhi wa-kharraja aḥādīthahu wa-qaddama la-hu ʻAbd Allāh ibn al-Muḥsin al-Turkī, Shuʻayb al-Arnāʼūṭ. Beirut : Muʼassasat al-Risālah, 1418/ ‬1998‪.

  • Taqrīb wa-tartīb Sharḥ al-`Aqīdah al-Ṭaḥāwīyah : li-Ibn Abī al-`Izz al-Ḥanafī / rattabahu wa-`allaqa `alayhi Khālid Fawzī `Abd al-Ḥamīd Ḥamzah. 3 vols. Jiddah : Maktabat al-Ḍiyā' ; Makkah : Dār al-Tarbiyah wa-al-Turāth, 1417/ 1997.

  • Commentary on the Creed by Ibn Abī al-`Izz‬ = Sharh al-`Aqidah al-Ṭaḥāwīyyah, translated by Muhammad `Abdu'l-Haqq Ansari. al-Imam Muhammad Ibn Sa`ud Islamic University, Imadat al-Bahth al-`Ilmi. Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Institute of Islamic and Arabic Sciences in America  1421 AH/2000 CE.  538pp.

 

Ḥamzah, Khālid Fawzī `Abd al-Ḥamīd.

  • Taqrīb wa-tartīb Sharḥ al-`Aqīdah al-Ṭaḥāwīyah : li-Ibn Abī al-`Izz al-Ḥanafī / rattabahu wa-`allaqa `alayhi Khālid Fawzī `Abd al-Ḥamīd Ḥamzah. 3 vols. Jiddah: Maktabat al-Ḍiyā'; Mecca: Dār al-Tarbiyah wa-al-Turāth, 1417 /1997.

Ḥamad, Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm.

  • ʻAqīdah ahl al-sunnah wa-al-jamāʻah : mafhūmuhā, khaṣāʼiṣuhā, khaṣāʼiṣ ahlihā taqdīm ʻAbd al-ʻAzīz ʻAbd Allāh ibn Bāz. al-Riyāḍ: Dār Ibn Khuzaymah, 1419/ ‬1998. 142pp.

Nasafī, Abu Hafs 'Umar ibn Muhammad (d. 537). ADD

  • http://www.marifah.net/articles/matnalnasafiyya.pdf

  • Aqa'id an-Nasafi: Introduction to Islamic Creed By Imam Abu Haf an-Nasafi. Translated By Dr. Musharraf Hussain (It includes the Arabic Text) Forward By Sheikh Abu Jafar Hassan Al-Hanbali 29pp. The Invitation Publishing House, UK Islamic.

  • "Doctrine as preached using the Maturidi Method Al 'Allamah, Imaam Abu Hafs 'Umar ibn Muhammad an-Nasafi (d. 537) was born in a town called Nasaf near Samarkand in Turkestan. He was a great Hanafi scholar and author of some one hundred books on such diverse topics as fiqh, literature, tafsir and so on. Amongst his numerous titles are: the magnanimous Imam, Leader of the Muslim and Star of religion and nation.

Maydānī, ʻAbd al-Raḥmān Ḥabannakah.

  • al-ʻAqīdah al-Islāmīyah wa-ususuhā.  Damascus + Beirut : Dār al-Qalam, 1415/1994. 703pp.

 

Judayʻ, ʻAbd Allah ibn Yūsuf. جديع ,عبد الله بن يوسف.

  • العقيدة السلفية في كلام رب البرية وكشف اباطيل المبتدعة الردية / تأليف عبد الله بن يوسف الجديع.
    = al-ʻAqīdah al-salafīyah fī kalām Rabb al-Barīyah wa-kashf abāṭīl al-mubtadiʻah al-radiyah. al-Rīyād : Dār al-Imām Mālik : Dār al-Sumayʻī, 1416/ ‬1995. 475pp.
     

 

Miscellaneous

  • al-ʻAqīdah al-Islāmīyah / taṣdaruhā Ḥarakat al-Jamhīr al-Muslimah, Farʻ al-ʻIrāq. ‪[‬Iraq‪]‬ : Ḥarakat al-Jamāhīr al-Muslimah, Farʻ al-ʻIrāq,  c. 1975-85??

 

Sābiq, al-Sayyid.

  • al-ʻAqāʼid al-Islāmīyah Beirut : Dār al-Kitāb al-ʻArabī, 1406/‬1985. 316pp.

Maghrāwī, Muḥammad ibn `Abd al-Raḥmān (d. 1948).

  • al-`Aqīdah al-salafīyah fī masīratihā al-tārīkhīyah wa-qudratuhā `alá muwājahat al-taḥddīyāt. al-qism al-khāmis : qism mawāqif al-salaf.  al-Riyāḍ : Dār al-Manār, 1414/ ‬1994.

Hijārī, al-Sharīf Ḥamdān Rājiḥ.

  • al-`Aqīdah awwalan maʻshar al-duʻāh. Cairo [?] : Dār al-Ḥaramayn‬, 1414/ ‬1993. 247pp.

 

 

Wensinck, A. J. (Arent Jan) (1882-1939)

  • The Muslim Creed: Its Genesis and Historical Development.

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  • The Muslim Creed: Its Genesis and Historical Development. Rep. Coronet Books Inc. 1999. ISBN-10: 8170691001 ISBN-13: 978-8170691006

 

 

Watt. William Montgomery. 

  • Islamic creeds : a selection / translated by William Montgomery Watt.  Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, c. 1994

"The historical background -- Some articles of belief and the relevant terms -- Note on literature -- Standard translations -- The Hanbalites. Ahmad ibn Hanbal. A Shorter Hanbalite Creed. A Longer Hanbalite Creed -- Al-Ash'ari -- Al-Tahawi -- The Testament of Abu Hanifa -- A Later Hanafite Creed -- Al-Qayrawani -- Al-Ghazali -- Al-Nasafi -- Al-Iji -- Al-Sanusi -- Allama-i-Hilli. Summary There are no official creeds in Islam comparable to the Apostles' creed and the Nicene creed in Christianity. In mainstream Sunnite Islam, however, there is broad agreement about the chief doctrines, and over the centuries these have been expressed in creeds by individuals and groups, some of which have been widely recognised and used for instruction. These creeds are basic material for the study of Islamic religion, and a selection is given here in translation, together with a historical introduction, explanatory notes, and a single Shi'ite creed to show the contrast."