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Imam Ibn Taymiyya About Saints
and Sainthood
Imam Ibn Taymiyya mentions in the volume already cited, page 19:
!" servant o# "llah, "lmighty and
$%alted, cannot be considered a saint unless he is a true
believer. "llah mentions in &ur'an, (urat )unus, *+-*:
!ow surely, on the #riends o# "llah there is no #ear, nor shall
they grieve those who believe and guard against
evil.
0e then quotes the #amous hadith #rom u2hari: !3y servant draws
not near to 3e with anything more loved
by 3e than the religious duties I have en4oined upon him, and 3y
servant continues to draw near to 3e with
supererogatory wor2s so that I shall love him. 5hen I love him I
am his hearing with which he hears, his seeing
with which he sees, his hand with which he stri2es and his #oot
with which he wal2s. 5ere he to as2
6something7 o# 3e, I would surely give it to him, and were he to
as2 3e #or re#uge, I would surely grant him it.
I do not hesitate about anything as much as I hesitate about
6sei8ing7 the soul o# 3y #aith#ul servant: he hates
death and I hate hurting him.
0e e%plains the phrase, !5hoever comes against one o# 3y saints
is challenging 3e to #ight thus: !It means
that "llah is e%pressing: I will see2 revenge against anyone who
comes against 3y saints li2e an aggressive
lion.' p. 1; "nd i# something is hidden, then
that is not the ?ight o# @od. There#ore the meaning o#
revelation e%ists, even i# it is not called revelation.
Arom Bama'sFihi ma fihi.Ibn Taymiyya continues in the same
boo2,Majmua Fatawi Ibn Taymiyya: !5hat is considered as a miracle
#or
a saint is that sometimes the saint might hear something that
others do not hear or see something that others do
not see, not while asleep, but in a wa2ened state o# vision. 0e
can 2now things that others cannot 2now, through
revelation or inspiration.
In another boo2,Mukhtasar al-Fatawa al-Masriyya, published by
al-3adani =ublishing 0ouse, 19C, page *,
he writes: !The miracles o# saints are absolutely true and
correct, and ac2nowledged by all 3uslim scholars.
The &ur'an has pointed to it in di##erent places, and the
0adith o# the =rophet s< have mentioned it, and
whoever denies the miraculous power o# saints are innovators or
#ollowing innovators.
0e continues quoting the =rophet's saying about the saints: !)ou
are the witnesses o# "llah on earth.
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In another manuscript he said, !I have worn the (u#i cloa2 o# a
number o# (u#i shai2hs, belonging to various
tariqats, among them "bdul &adir al-Filani, whose tariqat is
the greatest o# the well-2nown ones, may "llah
have mercy on him.
"#ter him, the lineage continues on to his student, Ibn
&ayyim al-Faw8iyya, and his student Ibn Ba4ab.
The re#erences #or what we have mentioned are: !al-!adi
manuscript in =rinceton ?ibrary, )ahuda ollection,
#ol. 1E;a, 1*9b, 1D1b-1D+a !at-Talyani, manuscript, hester
eatty, +9* C< in Gublin, #ol. *Da
