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﴿ فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ ﴾

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What is the authenticity of the claim that there are many contradictions in the collected fatwas of Ibn Taymiyyah?

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Question:
May Allah reward you, Honorable Shaykh. This questioner says: We have heard that in the collected fatwas of the Shaykh al-Islam Ibn Taymiyyah, from the fourteenth volume to the end, there are many contradictions that make the reader doubt their attribution to the Shaykh al-Islam. Is this statement true? We ask for clarification.

Answer:
They spoke in *al-Durar al-Saniyyah* and said that it contains takfir (declaring someone a disbeliever), exaggeration, and extremism, because they do not approve of the book, so they seek out its defects and cast doubt on it. The collected fatwas of the Shaykh al-Islam Ibn Taymiyyah are a selected pearl.
It is good speech and good detail. Everything you read, you benefit from it. The speech is clear and detailed, and there is nothing in it that is not from the Shaykh al-Islam Ibn Taymiyyah. This is a lie. This is an accusation against the scholars who approved it, the one who compiled it, and those who approved it and agreed with him on it.
The scholars of Najd, led by Shaykh Muhammad ibn Ibrahim (may Allah have mercy on him), Shaykh Ibn Baz, Shaykh Ibn Humayd, and the contemporaries of its compiler, did not find anything wrong with it. The speech of the Shaykh al-Islam is clear; his speech is clear, Glorified and Exalted is He. His style is distinguished. There is nothing inserted in it, ever. This is a lie. But as I mentioned to you, if they are not pleased with the book, they take to casting doubt on it. Yes.
Source قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، [511 -858] ما صحة ما يقال: إن في مجموع فتاوى ابن تيمية تناقضات كثيرة؟ - الشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com

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