Is the supplication for completing the Qur'an attributed to Ibn Taymiyyah valid?
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The questioner : Is the supplication for completing the Qur'an attributed to Ibn Taymiyyah authentic from him?
The Shaykh : It is not authentic. Ibn Taymiyyah is the furthest of scholars from inventing a report, a dhikr, or a supplication to be adopted and adhered to after every completion of the Qur'an. How could he do so, when he was the one who raised the banner of defending the Sunnah and fighting religious innovation, and who refuted the common division, both ancient and modern, among the majority of scholars and shaykhs that religious innovation is divided into five categories? Ibn Taymiyyah refuted this division in his books and adhered to the statement of the noble Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him)Sunan an-Nasa'i 1578Sahih (Darussalam). The best book of his that discusses this serious topic is his famous book, Iqtida' al-Sirat al-Mustaqim Mukhalafat Ahl al-Jahim. Therefore, Ibn Taymiyyah is the furthest from inventing a supplication for completing the Qur'an. Yes, it is prescribed for every reciter of the Qur'an and one who completes it to gather his family and relatives around him after completing the Qur'an, and to supplicate for himself and for them with what contains good in this world and the Hereafter, without adhering to that supplication which is printed at the end of the mushafs or many of the mushafs. Rather, he supplicates if he memorizes something from the supplications of the Book and the Sunnah. And they are, praise be to Allah, numerous and blessed. And if he does not memorize, as is the case with many of the common people, he asks Allah (Mighty and Majestic) in the language he speaks, and Allah (Mighty and Majestic) responds to him by the virtue of his completion of the Book of his Lord first, and then by his sincerity and his turning to his Lord with his heart second. Otherwise. Please.
The Shaykh : It is not authentic. Ibn Taymiyyah is the furthest of scholars from inventing a report, a dhikr, or a supplication to be adopted and adhered to after every completion of the Qur'an. How could he do so, when he was the one who raised the banner of defending the Sunnah and fighting religious innovation, and who refuted the common division, both ancient and modern, among the majority of scholars and shaykhs that religious innovation is divided into five categories? Ibn Taymiyyah refuted this division in his books and adhered to the statement of the noble Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him)
every innovation is going astray, and every going astray is in the Fire
كل بدعةٍ ضلالة وكل ضلالةٍ في النار
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