What is the Muslim's position on a book on 'aqidah (creed) by a scholar of the past?
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The questioner : The twenty-third question.
The Shaykh : Yes, what appears.
The questioner : Ibn al-Jawzi's creed.
The Shaykh : I say that Ibn al-Jawzi (may Allah have mercy on him) has gone before his Lord, and Allah is the Reckoner. As for the books we have in our hands, we look into them: what is correct is accepted, and what is wrong is rejected.
The Shaykh : Yes, what appears.
The questioner : Ibn al-Jawzi's creed.
The Shaykh : I say that Ibn al-Jawzi (may Allah have mercy on him) has gone before his Lord, and Allah is the Reckoner. As for the books we have in our hands, we look into them: what is correct is accepted, and what is wrong is rejected.
Source
دروس وفتاوى المسجد الحرام لعام 1406هـ - 4 — binothaimeen.net (33:26)
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