al-Aqida al-Tahawiyya (the Tahawi creed)

العقيدة الطحاوية

A short statement of the creed of Ahl al-Sunna wa'l-Jama'a by Abu Ja'far al-Tahawi, who presents it as the creed of the jurists of the community Abu Hanifa, Abu Yusuf and Muhammad ibn al-Hasan; about 134 articles from tawhid to a warning against sects.

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Abbasid Fragmentation
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Egypt & Nile
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Abu Ja'far al-Tahawi
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Sharh al-Tahawiyya fi al-Aqida al-Salafiyya

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Ibn Abi al-Izz al-Hanafi· Abu Ja'far al-Tahawi· Sharh al-Tahawiyya fi al-Aqida al-Salafiyya· The people of the qibla and not declaring takfir for sin· The hereafter: the grave, resurrection and reckoning· The ten promised Paradise· Signs of the Hour· Bid'a (religious innovation)

Sources

  • al-Aqida al-Tahawiyya, Dar Ibn Hazm 1995
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Ibn Abi al-Izz al-Hanafi

The Hanafi chief judge Sadr al-Din, commentator on the Tahawi creed, called a chief judge on the title page of the edition.