Concise Scholarly Commentary on the Foundations of the Sunnah & the Creed of the Religion

Concise Scholarly Commentary on the Foundations of the Sunnah & the Creed of the Religion

The Creed of the two Raazi Imaam: Abu Zur’ah Ar-Raazi (D. 264H) &  Abu Haatim Ar-Raazi (D. 277H) | Explanation by: Ahmad An-Najmī, Zaid Al-Madkhali, Rabi’ Al-Madkhali, Ubaid Al-Jabiri 

أصول السنة وإعتقاد الدين للامامين الرازيين أبي حاتم وأبي زرعة

“I asked my father (d. 277H) and Abū Zur’ah (d. 264H) about the beliefs of the People of the Sunnah regarding the fundamentals of the Religion, and what they both found the scholars upon in all of the various lands, and what they believe as e relates to these affairs. So they responded, saying: We found the scholars in all of the various lands: Hijaz, Iraq, Egypt, Sham and Yemen, so their creed was…”

An important point: These issues that al-Hafiz, the Muhaddith, the Imām, Shaykh ‘Abd al-Raḥmãn b. Muḥammad, who is well known as Ibn Abu Hatim, learnt from the two renowned memorizers and scholars of Hadith – his father and Abu Zur’ah, and the fact that both of them conveyed these matters from the Imāms of Ahl al-Sunnah proves that they were united upon these beliefs and that they did not differ regarding any of them. Takhil al- Aynayn, p. 43, al-‘Allāmah ‘Ubayd al-Jabiri.