Sheikh ul-islam ibn taymiyyah books
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He is Ahmad bin 'Abd al-Halim bin Abd as-Salam bin Abdullah bin Abu Qasim ibn Taymiyyah al-Harrani Taqi ad-Deen Abu al-Abbas bin Shihab ad Deen. He was born in Harran, an old city within the Arabian Peninsula between Syria and Iraq, on the tenth or the twelfth of the month Rabi' al-Awwal in the year 661H. He and his family were later forced to flee to Damascus due to the occupation by the Tartars.
He came from a family of scholars, his father and grandfather were both scholars as were three of his brothers: Abdur-Rahman, Abdullah and his half brother, Muhammad.
During his early studies of Islam, he never ceased to amaze his teachers at the strength of his memory, keen intelligence and depth of understanding. It is said that he was first allowed to give legal verdicts at the age of nineteen and he began teaching at Dar al-Hadith as-Sukriyyah at the age of twenty-two.
He became famous for his knowledge of hadith, indeed he was a Hafidh (Hadith Master), and for his knowledge of the Quran and its related sciences, he impressed all with his circles on tafsir. He also attai
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All perfect praise be to Allah, The Lord of the Worlds. I testify that there is none worthy of worship except Allah, and that Muhammad is His slave and Messenger.
Ibn Taymiyyah is Taqiyu Ad-Deen Abul 'Abbaas Ahmad Ibn 'Abd Al-Haleem Ibn 'Abd As-Salaam Ibn Taymiyyah Al-Harrani Al-Hanbali . He was born on Monday the 10th of Rabee' Al-Awwal 66l A.H./22nd of January 1263 A.C in Harran in Iraq. His father fled with his family from Harran to Damascus in the year 667 A.H./1268 A.C. out of fear of the Tatars who invaded the land of Islam and were very close to Harran. In Damascus, the center of Islamic studies at that time, Ahmad Ibn Taymiyyah followed the footsteps of his father who was a scholar of Islamic studies by studying with the great scholars of his time. He completed his studies when he was a teenager, and at the age of 19, he became a professor of Islamic studies, well versed in Quranic studies, Hadeeth, Fiqh, theology, Arabic grammar and scholastic theology, etc., He started giving Fataawa on religious matters without following any of the traditional schools: the Hanafi, Maal
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Ibn Taymiyya
1. Life and Works
Mongol invasions shaped Ibn Taymiyya’s childhood and early career. The Mongols conquered Baghdad in 1258 and established the Ilkhānid Mongol Empire in Iraq and Persia, one of the four major Mongol empires that together controlled the vast expanse of territory from eastern Europe to the Korean peninsula. In 1260 the Mamlūk rulers of Egypt and Syria halted the Ilkhānid Mongol advance from the northeast at the Battle of ʿAyn Jālūt in Palestine. Ahmad Ibn Taymiyya was born in 1263 (661 in the Islamic calendar) in Ḥarrān which is located today in southeastern Turkey. The Mamlūks controlled Ḥarrān at the time, but later in 1269 Ibn Taymiyya’s family fled a Mongol incursion and settled in Damascus. His father was a Ḥanbalī religious scholar who became head of the Sukkariyya madrasa. Ibn Taymiyya excelled at the religious sciences and took over as head of the Sukkariyya in 1284 when his father died. Ibn Taymiyya found himself in theological difficulty in 1298 for writing again
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