What is your opinion, O Shaykh, regarding the statement of Imam Abu Hanifah in the text of Sharh al-Fiqh al-Akbar by Ali al-Qari, page 51?
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The Shaykh : Now that you have understood this reality, I return to what you asked at the beginning: regarding the letters, you can say that Allah is free from the letters known to you and to me, which require a cavity, a tongue, a palate, and so on. Of course, the Lord of the worlds is free from all of these things. So when such a report is attributed to Abu Hanifah, I began with a verse: Why?
Let us say: if a statement comes to us from an imam among the imams of the Muslims, we do not take this imam as a god, as the Christians did with Isa (Jesus). We believe in his imamate, but we do not believe in his infallibility. Is that clear?
The questioner : Yes.
The Shaykh : In that case, any statement that comes to us from an imam, before anything else, we want to verify its attribution to him. After that, if this statement is authentic, we present it to the Book and the Sunnah. We do not believe in a statement like this.
They took their rabbis
اتخذوا أحبارهمLet us say: if a statement comes to us from an imam among the imams of the Muslims, we do not take this imam as a god, as the Christians did with Isa (Jesus). We believe in his imamate, but we do not believe in his infallibility. Is that clear?
The questioner : Yes.
The Shaykh : In that case, any statement that comes to us from an imam, before anything else, we want to verify its attribution to him. After that, if this statement is authentic, we present it to the Book and the Sunnah. We do not believe in a statement like this.