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'Narrated by the glorious scholars' (qasida 15:47) This is the motto of this section, which is for preserving and the knowledge about the valuable books of our great religious predecessors. You can find all special expressions in the Glossary. We need your comments to develop this site for you.
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Great Ancestors' Books
Since we are constantly in need for the non-distorted books of our predecessors, and since some irresponsible groups had intentionally or unintentionally printed distorted books and spread them either in the markets or on the internet, there aroused an insisting need to find reliable sources for the books and knowledge of the virtuous predecessors. So, we are nominating to you some sister sites that choose accurately every book they present. This way you can easily find the books and texts of our predecessors which some people tried to hide and conceal, but Allah will complete His guidance, even if biased people dislike. We will mention some of the books, from these sites, that sheikh Fakhr Eldin quoted from in his books and lessons. More information about these sites are in the library page in our main site.
Tafsir at-Tabary
It is "Jāmi`
al-bayān `an ta'wīl āy al-Qur'ān"
known as "Tefsir [interpretation] at-Tabary"by the great
Imam and the famous collector of Hadith, Abi-Ja'far
Mohamed ibn Jarir
at-Tabary, who died in 310H. It is the greatest and most famous exegesis of
the Quran. At-Tabary is considered the father of exegetes of the Qur'an
and Islamic historians. His tafsir is one of the greatest and most accurate
exegesis of the Qur'an, and it is the first
reference of all exegetes. He said 'I asked Allah for guidance and help in
what I intended in the classification of this tafsir 3 years before I did
it, and He helped me'. The author had a special
method of mentioning the Qur'anic verses,
interpreting it and mentioning the most famous sayings about it. He proved
those sayings by what the companions and the followers said. Then, he started
to prefer one of those sayings by introducing it at the beginning. He also
mentions the grammatical functions of the words in the verse and the laws
deduced from it. He prefered some of them over the
others. This book is the oldest and most reliable in exegesis by use of
Introduction by the Editors Translated by Nahed Abuel-Hassan
Note:
to
download & use these books, you need to down the compressed files
(rar
files) of the book and place it in the same
folder
and do not change their names. Then open any compressed file and you will
find the book which may comprise of one (pdf)
file or several ones which in turn will be decompressed to a one folder and
do not change any of their names. Now you open any of them using the
acrobat reader
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A Selection of brother’s readings:
The Knowledgeable Glorious Scholars
Thanks to Allah who has made the knowledgeable scholars successors to the prophets to inherit their manners and became role models for everyone. Many people got strayed and got away from the guidance of the Beloved [PPBUH] when they did not take the great old knowledgeable scholars of this nation as their source of knowledge, instead they became addicted to taking from the recent simple ones. This way they got away from what their righteous ancestors used to have and what was settled by the Islamic nation for decades and centuries. The Prophet [PPBUH] said: (People are still in blessing as long as they took their knowledge from their knowledgeable elders. When they start taking from their young unknowledgeable ones then they are doomed). The Prophet [PPBUH] also said: (This religion is knowledge, so be careful who to get from). He [PPBUH] also said: (When the knowledgeable scholars die, people will choose their leaders from unknowledgeable ones. When they ask them, they will answer without knowledge, so they will lead astray and mislead everyone, and there is no strength no power but from Allah). sayydi Fakhreddin Mohamed Osman [AAH] said: [If you were asked: What is the book? It is from what is narrated by the great scholars] (qasida 15:47) All scholars agreed that no one can disparage any word from the Prophet [PPBUH] or judge it as being fabricated or weakly narrated, unless he has an absolute proof from Qur'an or Sunna of the Prophet [PPBUH]. From the start of the first century and up until now, great scholars [AAT] have taken the mission of preserving Turath of our true religion [inherited knowledge from the Prophet, His companions, and our great scholars]. They have been preserving it the same way as the Prophet [PPBUH] wanted them to do. That is how the authentic Hadith, true interpretations, and Historical events from the start of Mohammad' Message till our current day, were preserved and predicated honestly and truthfully. One of the main glorious scholars, with a great resume, is:
Imam at-Tabary Imam of Interpreters and Historians
He is the great Imam and honorable scholar, Mohamed ibn Jarir al-Tabary, who is famous as Imam at-Tabary. His life is between the years 224 and 310H. He died while he was 86 years old. He was born in the year 224H in a small town named Aamel in the division of Taberestan, north of Persia, on the shores of the Caspian Sea, which is now in the northern part of Iran near Tehran. He used to say [AAH] about his birth date: I was born in 224 or 225H. He was asked "why is the doubt? O, Abo-Gafar?" He said "The people of my country used to date with the events and stories that happened. When I grew up I asked them about the event that they dated my birth with, some of them said it was around the end of 224H, while others said it was early 225H, and it is a little difference". He was of the highest ranks of the scholars, and the great Imams of that great era. Those Imams who preserved with their insistence and honesty the recording of the Hadith of the Messenger of Allah [PPBUH]. And they suffered the hardship of the travels to the various countries to raise high the knowledge of the religion.
His travels and life of seeking knowledge: ever since he was young, at-Tabary lived for seeking knowledge. At the age of 7, as we said, he memorized the Qur’an, and at the age of 9, he started to read on the sheikhs of Hadith; so he learned from sheikh Mohamed ibn Hamed ar-Razi [AAH], who is one of the great sheikhs of Hadith. At-Tabary read on him more that one hundred thousand Hadith. At the age of 12 he left his home town seeking knowledge. At the age of 17, he had his first trip to Bagdad to see Imam Ahmed ibn Hanbal. On the boundaries of Bagdad he learned of Imam Ahmed’s death. He was so sad that he refused to enter Bagdad and he headed for Basra, and stayed there for a long time reading Hadith on the sheikhs of Hadith there. He then left for Kufa where he learned language and poetry from sheikh Ahmed ibn Abbas, who was known as ath-Tha'lab, who was Imam of Kufa in language and grammar, and who was on top of its Imams. At-Tabary depended on him in language and grammar. On the age of 29, he had his first trip to Egypt through the land of Sham. In Egypt, he learned Fiqh and Hadith on the hands of the students of Imam ash-Shafie'y. Then he left for Sham then back to Egypt after two years, after he had enough knowledge, he was 32 then. He stayed in Egypt until he had a great deal of knowledge, then he left when he was 35 year old. He went back to Bagdad where he spent sometime between seeking knowledge and teaching. Then he left for Taberestan where he found rejection and cursing for the companions! We ask Allah for saving. So he left the place and went back to Bagdad for the last time, and stayed from 290 to 310H, working on his classification, writing, and teaching until he died at the age of 86.
His writings and the opinion of
scholars of his scientific situation:
He was one of the great scholars. We judge according to his sayings and
refer to his opinions because of his knowledge and superiority. He collected
of knowledge what no other one of his era shared
He was also courageous in the situations of right and he refused the positions offered to him because of fear for his knowledge and being busy from it. It was said about that: When al-Khaqani got the ministry he offered Imam at-Tabary a lot of money, but he refused it and returned it. Then he offered him the judge position, but he refused. Then he offered him to run the appealing, but he also refused and refrained. So his friends reproached him and said "You will be rewarded from Allah". They hoped that he will go along with them so they went to him to persuade him to rid with them to accept that position. But he chided them and said "I thought that if I wanted to accept it, you would chide me for it". So they were ashamed and left him. He was also known for his piety and his very good reading of Qur'an, so people used to come to him to pray behind him. He was not satisfied with learning knowledge, but he also insisted on teaching it to others. So his books were a treasure and a great heritage for all people to use and benefit from until today. His books are being taught in the Islamic colleges in Egypt, India, Pakistan, and all Islamic countries. Thus, at-Tabary lived his whole life dedicated to knowledge and writing, until it was said that he used to write 40 pages per day. On top of all his writings were his 2 books in interpretation and in history: His great book that is known as "the Interpretation of at-Tabary" and his book of history "the Nations and Kings". It was narrated about him that he said "I consulted Allah [made Estikharah] and asked His help for what I intended to do of writing in interpretation, for three years before I started and He helped me. At-Tabary depended, in his interpretation of Qur'an, on what is transmitted from the Prophet [PPBUH] and from the companions and followers. He added to that, what was known in his era of language and grammar. He also referred to the ways of reading and chose from it and examined what he chose. He used the help of the history books and the Fiqh books. He did not spare any effort to have his interpretation be of only the trusted sources, so he did not enter in it anything doubtful.
His Death [AAH]: At the time of Dhohr on the Monday that he died on, he asked for water to renew his ablution. They told him that it was late for Dhohr so he should leave it to the time of Asr, but he refused. He prayed for the Dhohr alone then prayed for the Asr on its time. When it was time for him to leave, he had some of his family and friends with him, one of them was Abo-Bakr ibn Kamel. They said to him before his soul was out "You are the prove between us and Allah, so is there a recommendation you would want us to do for our religion to be saved". He said "I recommend to you all that I wrote in my books, work with it". Then he kept saying the testimony [ash-Shahadah] and doing Dhikr of Allah. Then he wiped his face and closed his eyes with his own hands. Then he let open his hands and left life. He died on the evening of the 2nd of Shawal 310H. May Allah accept him, and he was buried in Bagdad.
Written by G. Salah Translated by Nahed Abuel-Hassan
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His life
with him. He knew Qur'an by
heart, knew the different ways of reading and meanings, had the Fiqh in the
rules of Qur'an, knew Sunna and its ways, weaknesses, correctness, the
abrogating, and the abrogated, and knew the sayings of the companions and
the followers. He was one of the rare people of all times in his knowledge,
intelligence, and classification. He was also an ascetic of the worldly
life, as he did not want any money or position. He spent his whole life for
knowledge, Fiqh, and studying, so he never got married or was been busy from
the knowledge. He was also disdaining and he refused to take fees for his
writings and he refused any gifts unless he could repay it with better ones.
As for his other writings; he
wrote "the History of Men of the Companions and the Followers".
He also has the book of "the Nice Talk about the Rules of Islamic Shari'a"
which consists of 83 books. He wrote the book of "the Ways of Reading and
the Revelation", the book of "the Difference of the Scholars of the
States", and the book of "the Light in the Rules of Islamic Shari'a".
He also wrote a wonderful book of "the Enlightenment", which was
directed to the people of Taberestan. He has a book of "the Prayer",
"the Etiquettes of the Rules", "the Journal", and "the
Levels of the Scholars", which is one of the very valuable books. He
also has the book of "Rituals", "the Explanation of Sunna",
and many other books.