AI-Fiqh aI-Akbar: an Accurate Translation, livre ebook

The treatise AI-Fiqh aI-Akbar (Greater Knowledge) has for centuries been accepted as a reliable work on Islamic beliefs. As one of the earliest works written on the subject and as one of the surviving works of the Great Imam of jurisprudence and theology, Abu Hanifa Nu’man ibn Thabit al-Kufi (d. 1501767),' the text has been widely studied around the Muslim world for centuries. Modern translations of Imam Abu Hanifa’s al Fiqh al Akbar have attributed anthropomorphic (claiming Allah has a form or body) views to the Imam. Salafi’s have claimed such beliefs regarding the Imam despite the fact his most famous work on Aqeedah was written to refute the heretical sects that arose in his time claiming the Anthramorphism of Allah, and to clearly define the Aqeedah of Ahl al Sunnah wal Jama’ah; this claim is made because it would align the Imam who was of the salaf (first generations of muslims) with their own Aqeedah Wasitiyyah and al-Aqeeda al-Hamawiyya both written by Ibn Taymiya and recently revived and published. Salafis make such claims since it gives credence to their arguments about the literalism of the Attributes of Allah,’ like the hand, face, eyes, foot, side, shin, self, etc. They could easily make the claim that their ‘aqeedah is correct and in agreement with the creed of the Salaf, since Imam Abu Hanifa who is one of the Salaf says in Al-Fiqh Al-Akbar that Allah has a hand. And His hand is an attribute, similar to what they say.