The Creed Of Imam Bayhaqi : An Abridged Translation Of Al-I'tiqad Wa'l-Hidayah Ila Sabil Ar-Rashad
The Creed Of Imam Bayhaqi : An Abridged Translation Of Al-I'tiqad Wa'l-Hidayah Ila Sabil Ar-Rashad
Author: Abu Bakr Ahmad ibn Husayn Al-Bayhaqi
Publisher: Turath
Publishing
ISBN: 9781906949150
Year: 2017
Weight:
0.440 kg
Pages: 340
pp
Price: RM65
Allah (swt) says in the Qurʾān ﴾Say: We believe in Allah and what has been sent
down to us﴿ (2:136). Therefore
it is understood by the scholars of Islam that the ‘first obligation’ for a
responsible adult is to know Allah. Abū Dāwūd narrates, in his Sunan, that the
Messenger of Allah (swt) said, ‘The Jews split into 71 or 72 sects; the
Christians split into 71 or 72 sects; and my community will split into 73
sects.’ Consequently, the Muslim community has diligently strived to preserve
the correct theology of Islam, and this translated work is one exposition of
the Sunni creed.
The author describes this treatise as ‘a work on the subject
of what the morally responsible needs to know concerning the foundations of
knowledge and its derivatives… along with pointing out some of its evidences in
a concise manner’. So the work covers essential tenets of faith concerning
Allah (swt), His Messenger (saw), the beatific vision of Allah in the
Hereafter, predetermination, the natural predisposition to Islam, His angels
and Books, the punishment in the grave, the Resurrection, Paradise and Hell,
the law of obeying rulers, miracles of the saints, the Companions, the
Prophet’s family and the caliphates of Abū Bakr, ʿUmar, ʿUthmān and ʿAlī (rad)
Shāfiʿī jurist, who was praised by Dhahabī as ‘Shaykh of Islam’ and ‘unequalled
in his age’ (wāḥid zamānih). He authored monumental works on Hadith and Islamic
law, as well as important books of theology (in which he represented an early
Ashʿarī persuasion).
