💠The I’tiqaad (belief) of Abu Abd-Allah Muhammad ibn Ismail Bukhari (imam Bukhari)
💢Part - 2
2️⃣ - One of the attributes of Allah is His Speech. Since His Attributes have been with Him eternally, His Speech cannot be created and therefore, the Qur'an is not created.
❖❐ The Imam of Ahlu's-Sunnah, Imam al-Barbahari (d. 329H) said: "The Qur'an is the Speech of Allah (subhanahu wa ta'ala), His Revelation and Light. It is not created, since the Qur'an is from Allah (subhanahu wa ta'ala) and that which is from Allah (subhanahu wa ta'ala) is not created. This was what Malik ibn Anas, Ahmad ibn Hanbal and the scholars before and after them said and debating about it is disbelief." (Sharhu's-Sunnah)
❖❐ He also said: "Know that whoever says that his recitation of the Qur'an is created is an innovator. Whoever remains silent and will neither say created or uncreated, he too is a Jahmi. This was the saying of Ahmad ibn Hanbal." [Sharhu's-Sunnah, # 98]
❖❐ Imam al-Lalika’i reported from Abbas al-Azhar that he said: "And then I came to Makkah and met Sufyaan ibn Uyainah and narrated to him the words of the man (who came to Malik ibn Anas) and he said: A disbeliever. Then I went to Kufah and I met Abu Bakr ibn Iyaash and I said to him: What do you say about the one who says the Qur'an is created? And I narrated to him the words of the man. He said: He is a disbeliever and whoever does not say he is a disbeliever is himself a disbeliever.
❖❐ Then I met Ali ibn Aasim and Hashim and I said to them both the same and narrated to them the words of the man and they both said: A disbeliever. Then I met Abd-Allah ibn Idris, Abu Usamah, Ubdah ibn Sulayman al-Kallaabi, Yahya ibn Zakariyya and Waki and I narrated to them and they said: A disbeliever. Then I met Ibn al-Mubaarak, Abu Ishaq al-Fazaari and al-Walid ibn Muslim, so I narrated to them the words and they said, all of them: A disbeliever." [as-Sunnah, 2/ 249-250]
❖❐ Imam Bukhari (Rahimahu'Allah) said: "al-Hakam ibn Muhammad ibn at-Tahari, I wrote down from him in Makkah, said: Sufyaan ibn Uyainah said: I have met with our Shaykhs for seventy years, amongst them Amr ibn Dinaar (all of them saying): The Qur’an is the Speech (kalaam) of Allah and it is not created.” [Khalq Af’aali'l-Ibaad, 11]
❖❐ The saying of the Salaf is that the Qur'an which is written in the Mushaf, memorized in the heart and recited upon the tongue is the uncreated Speech of Allah (subhanahu wa ta'ala). However, due to the fact that the human voice and movement of one’s tongue are created actions, the innovators innovated the ambiguous statement: "My recitation of the Qur'an is created." This saying leads to the previous saying that the Qur'an itself is created. Therefore, the scholars such as Imam Ahmad warned against this. [Bukhari, Khalq Af’aali'l-‘Ibaad, # 217, # 540]
❖❐ lmam Malik (d. 179H) said: "The Qur'an is the Speech of Allah, it is not created." (al-Lalika’i, as-Sunnah, # 414)
❖❐ Imam Ahmad (d. 241H) was asked about the one who says that the Qur'an is created, so he said: "(He is) a disbeliever." (al-Lalika’i, as-Sunnah, # 449)
❖❐ Imam al-Lalika’i reports from Ahmad ibn Abd-Allah ibn al-Khidr al-Muqri that Abu Muhammad Yahya ibn Khalf al-Muqri said: "I was with Malik ibn Anas in the year 68H, and a man came to him and said: 0 Abu Abd-Allah what do you say about the one who says: The Qur’an is created? He said: A disbeliever, heretic, kill him.
The man then said: I am just quoting these words which I heard. Then he (i.e., Imam Malik) said: I have not heard them from anyone else, I have heard them from you. Abu Muhammad said: Then that was a bit tough on me so I went to Egypt and I met al-Layth ibn Sa’d and said: ‘0 Abu'l-Haarith! What do you say about the one who says: The Qur'an is created? And then I narrated to him the words said to Malik, and then he (also) said: (Such a one is) a disbeliever. Then I met Ibn Lahei’ah and I said to him the equivalent of what I said to al-Layth ibn Sa’d and I narrated to him the words, he said: A disbeliever."
❖❐ Imam Aajurri (d.
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