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As-Sunnah Explanation of Al-Muzani
(Al Muzani’s Sharhus Sunnah)
Shaykh Maher Bin Dhafer Al-Qahtani (hafidhahullaah)
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Sharhus-Sunnah was penned by the Noble Imām Ismā’īl Ibn Yahyā al-Muzanī (d.264H) – the student of Imām ash-Shāfi’ī (d.204H) – over a millennium ago.  In this return to the earliest sources of Islām, the Imām covers all of the foundational issues of faith in Islām including, Allāhýs ascendancy over the creation, the Qadr (pre-decree), Īmān, the Qurýān, the Attributes of Allāh, the Resurrection, Seeing Allāh in the Hereafter, the Companions and much more.

He is Abu Ibraaheem, Ismaa’eel bin Yahyaa, bin Ismaa’eel bin Amr bin Muslim al-Muzanee al-Misree and he is the student of Imaam ash-Shaafi’ee. He was born in 175H and died in 264H. His shaykhs include Imaam ash-Shaafi’ee, Nu’aym bin Hammaad, Alee bin Ma’bad and Asbagh bin Naafi’. His students include Abu Bakr bin Khuzaimah (d. 311H), Abu Ja’far at-Tahawi(d. 321), Zakariyyaa bin Yahyaa as-Saajee (d. 307H).

This creed of al-Muzanee is taken from the printed edition of his risaalah “Sharh us-Sunnah” (tahqeeq Jamaal Azzoon, 1st edition, 1995CE) and it is taken from three manuscripts:

• From a collection of manuscripts from the Maktabah of Shaheed Alee Pasha in Turkey, photos of which are amongst the manuscripts of the Islamic University of Madinah, no. 1694, and it has its full chain of narrators to al-Muzanee.
• That which is included by Ibn al-Qayyim in “Ijtimaa’ Juyoosh al-Islaamiyyah” and adh-Dhahabee in “al-Uluww”
• That which is found in the library of Shaykh Hammaad al-Ansaaree consisting of four pages and 29 lines, and it has its full chain of narrators to al-Muzanee.

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Related Links:

• Commentary On Al Muzani’s Sharhus Sunnah By Al Allamah Ahmed Ibn Yahya An Najmi – Book 
  The ancient text has been explained by the former Muftī of the Jīzān province in Saudi Arabia, al-’Allāmah Ahmad Ibn Yahyā an-Najmī (d.1429H).  The commentary is included to make this work comprehensible and clear to the average Muslim reader.  Additional notes have been added from various printings of Sharhus-Sunnah to provide a comprehensive and historical context to the benefits contained herein.  So we hope – as Imām al-Muzanī hoped – that this book will, “clarify to you from the Sunnah an affair that you may make yourself patient in adherence to it and avert thereby the doubtful sayings and the deviation in the newly-invented affairs of the misguided ones.”
• Al-Dhahabi in al-Siyar: The Statement of al-Muzanee (d. 264H) – The Tawhid of Any Person is Not Valid Until He Knows Allaah Is Above His Throne
  Imam al-Dhahabi reports in al-Siyar (12/494)