Is bare scholarly consensus sufficient to establish one of the names of Allah, or one of His attributes, without looking to the Book or the Sunnah?
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Question:
Your Eminence the Shaykh, may Allah reward you, some people say that there are attributes that are established, or established by bare scholarly consensus, and that they have no evidence for their establishment from the Book and the Sunnah, but their only evidence is consensus. Is this correct?
Answer:
No, this is not correct, and no one among the recognized scholars has said this. Attributes are not established except by the Book or the Sunnah. Allah is not described except by what He has described Himself with, or by what His Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) described Him with. Whoever describes Allah with something other than what is in the Book and the Sunnah has spoken about Allah without knowledge.
Your Eminence the Shaykh, may Allah reward you, some people say that there are attributes that are established, or established by bare scholarly consensus, and that they have no evidence for their establishment from the Book and the Sunnah, but their only evidence is consensus. Is this correct?
Answer:
No, this is not correct, and no one among the recognized scholars has said this. Attributes are not established except by the Book or the Sunnah. Allah is not described except by what He has described Himself with, or by what His Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) described Him with. Whoever describes Allah with something other than what is in the Book and the Sunnah has spoken about Allah without knowledge.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، هل يكفي الإجماع المجرد لإثبات اسم من أسماء الله، أو صفة من صفاته دون النظر للكتاب أو السنة؟ — youtube.com
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