Al Asma w'al-Sifat, 3 Vols Arabic

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Al Asma w'al-Sifat, 3 Vols Arabic, New,
تفسير الأسماء والصفات
[A4] Hardback - 2217 pages,
الإمام عبد القهار بن طاهر البغدادي
by Imam Abd al-Qahir al-Baghdadi [d.429h]
Published by Dar al-Taqwa, Syria.

Description :

الأسماء والصفات published in Syria, this detailed work on the attributes of Allah Almighty by Imam Abd al-Qahir al-Baghdadi, rahmatullahi ta'ala 'alayhi, [d.429h], entitled Al-Asma wa as-Sifat, is presented here in 3 large volumes.

This excellent edition, is verified from three manuscripts and contains numerous annotations concerning difficult words, the people and places mentioned, and the referencing of Hadiths and Athars. Finally, the editor has added many supplementary notes to clarify the meaning of the text, according to the Ash'ari school.

Printed on cream paper, using two colour ink. Decent layout, with the Harakats included. Published y Dar al-Taqwa, Damsacus.

About Imam Abd al-Qahir al-Baghdadi :

He is `Abd al-Qahir ibn Tahir ibn Muhammad, Abu Mansur al-Naysaburi al-Tamimi al-Baghdadi al-Shafi`i al-Ash`ari (d. 429), al-Ustadh, the Imam, jurist, scholar of principles and kalam, man of letters, poet, prosodist, grammarian, and mathematician, praised by Shaykh al-Islam Abu `Uthman al-Sabuni as "one of the Imams of the principles of the Religion and foremost authorities of Islam by consensus of its most eminent and competent scholars."

He is Imam al-Bayhaqi's senior and the exact contemporary of Abu Dharr al-Harawi and Abu Muhammad al-Juwayni among the third-generation Ash`ari imams. He came to Naysabur with his father and spent his entire fortune in support of the scholars of knowledge until he became able to teach in seventeen different disciplines. He was Abu Ishaq al-Isfarayini's senior student and, together with Abu Sahl al-Su`luki, they staunchly defended the position related from al-Shafi`i that "the Book cannot be abrogated by the Sunna." Abu Mansur succeeded Abu Ishaq al-Isfarayini as headmaster in the mosque of `Aqil, where al-Bayhaqi, Abu al-Qasim al-Qushayri and Nasir al-Marwazi studied under him. He narrated hadith from al-Isma`ili and Abu Ahmad ibn `Adi.

Among his works:

---1. Ahkam al-Wat' al-Tamm, also known as Iltiqa' al-Khitanayn, a book on sexual ethics and pertaining laws in Islam, in four volumes.
---2. Bulugh al-Mada min Usul al-Huda,
---3. Fada'ih al-Karramiyya,
---4. Fada'ih al-Mu`tazila,
---5. al-Fakhir fi al-Awa'il wa al-Awakhir,
---6. al-Farq Bayn al-Firaq, his major heresiological reference,
---7. Ibtal al-Qawl bi al-Tawallud,
---8. al-`Imad fi Mawarith al-`Ibad, on inheritance laws.
---9. al-Iman wa Usuluh,
---10. al-Kalam wa al-Wa`id,
---11. Manaqib al-Imam al-Shafi`i,
---12. Mashariq al-Nur wa Madarik al-Surur fi al-Kalam,
---13. al-Milal wa al-Nihal, a heresiological reference-work,
---14. Mi`yar al-Nazar,
---15. Nafy Khalq al-Qur'an,
---16. Naqd Abi `Abd Allah al-Jurjani fi Tarjih Madhhab Abi Hanifa, in which he states that Imam al-Shafi`i authored a book in refutation of Brahmans in which he adduces the proofs of Prophethood,
---17. Nasikh al-Qur'an wa Mansukhuh,
---18. al-Qadaya fi al-Dawr wa al-Wasaya,
---19. Sharh Hadith Iftiraq Ummati `ala Ihda wa Sab`in Firqa,
---20. Sharh Miftah Ibn al-Qass on Shafi`i fiqh,
---21. al-Sifat,
---22. Tafdil al-Faqir al-Sabir `ala al-Ghani al-Shakir,
---23. Tafsir al-Qur'an,
---24. al-Tahsil fi al-Usul,
---25. al-Takmila fi al-Hisab,
---26. Ta'wil Mutashabih al-Akhbar,
---27. Usul al-Din, in reference to the verse of istiwa' one of the mutashabihat or Qur'anic ambiguities,

Toward the end of Abu Mansur al-Baghdadi's life the Turkmen dissension forced him out of Naysabur to Isfarayin, where he died and was buried next to his teacher Abu Ishaq._{NB: Above research courtesy of Shaykh G.F. Haddad.}