The Biography of al-'Alaf and the Transmission of the Words of al-Khatib, al-Dhahabi, and Ibn al-'Imad Regarding Him
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The Reader: This is a concise biography of al-'Alaf, whom Ibn al-Qayyim mentioned in the al-Nuniyyah poem in the chapter on ... regarding their objection to the statement on the permissibility of ... regarding the permissibility of ... the Exaltedness of Allah and ...
The Shaykh : Okay.
The Reader: al-'Alaf
The Shaykh : That is a good observation, yes, yes, yes
The student: ...
The Shaykh : Yes, yes
The Student: Because he mentioned more than one verse ...
The Shaykh : Ah
The Reader: "Al-'Alaf is Muhammad ibn Huzayl ibn 'Ubayd Allah ibn Makhlul ibn Huzayl al-'Alaf, a freed slave of Abd al-Qays, the Shaykh of the Mu'tazilah and the author of books on their doctrines. He was from the people of Basra and went to Baghdad. He was foul in his speech, he divided the consensus of the Muslims, and he rejected" "the explicit text of the Book of Allah, Mighty and Majestic, when he claimed that the people of Paradise will have their movements cut off therein until ... until there will be ... and they will not speak a word. So it necessitated for them the statement of ... the severance of the bliss of Paradise from them. And Allah, the Exalted, says: 'Their food is eternal'"
The Shaykh : Their food, here
The Reader: Their food their food, their food
The Shaykh : Yes
The Reader: "And he denied the attributes of Allah by which He described Himself, and he claimed that knowledge is Allah and that the power of Allah is Allah, so he made Allah His knowledge and His power" "and His power. Exalted is Allah above what he described of Him, greatly. ... Al-Ma'mun al-Hajbi al-Yawmi said: Look at who is at the door from among the people of Kalam. So he went out and returned to him, and he said: At the door is Abu al-Huzayl al-'Alaf, who is a Mu'tazili, and 'Abd Allah ibn ... ibn Hisham ibn ... the Rafidi. And al-Ma'mun said: No one from the people of the torment of Hell remains but that he is present. And from Abu Ya'qub al-Sha... he said: I asked Abu al-Huzayl in which year he was born, and he said: Abu ... informed me that Ibrahim ibn 'Abd Allah ibn 'Abd Allah ibn al-Hasan was killed when I was ten years old, and Ibrahim was killed in the year 145. So that indicates that Abu al-Huzayl was born in the year 135. And Abu al-Huzayl died in the first year of the caliphate of al-Mutawakkil, in the year 235. And he"
The Shaykh : How old does that make him?
The student: One hundred.
The Shaykh : One hundred years old
The Reader: "And his years were one hundred years" This transmission is from the History of Baghdad, volume two, page 366
And al-Dhahabi said in Siyar A'lam al-Nubala, volume ten, page 542: "And he took the doctrine of the Mu'tazilah from ... Khalid ... in ... and Wasi' ibn 'Ata' al-Ghazali" "al-Ghazali. And the life of Abu al-Huzayl was long, and he passed ninety years, and he departed in the year 227. And it is said he remained until the year 230. And 'Ali ibn Yasin and others from the Mu'tazilah took from him"
The Shaykh : ... O Allah ... O Allah, make us firm
The Reader: And the author of Shadharaat al-Dhahab fi Akhbar Man Zahab said that al-Falah, and from Abu al-Falah 'Abd al-Hayy ibn 'Uthman, the author of Shadharaat al-Dhahab fi Akhbar Man Zahab, Abu al-Falah 'Abd al-Hayy ibn 'Imad al-Hanbali, volume two, page 85: "Ibn Huzayl died in the year 135, or it is said in the year 226. He was the Shaykh of the Mu'tazilah and the head of religious innovation, and he had"
The Shaykh : ... when did he die?
The Reader: "Abu al-Huzayl died"
The Shaykh : Yes
The Reader: "in the year 235, or it is said in the year 226"
The Shaykh : Yes
The Reader: "and he was the Shaykh of the Mu'tazilah and the head of religious innovation, and he had about one hundred years. He said: And in al-Ibar" "he said in al-Ibar: And he used to say in the annihilation of the people of the Fire, and he mentioned" these biographies here
And the verifier of the tenth part of Siyar A'lam al-Nubala, Muhammad Na'im ... al-'Arqusi, mentioned his biography among the biographies of al-'Alat ... the biographies. If these are the biographies of al-'Alat in al-Nujum al-Zahirah, volume two, page 248, and Muraajid al-Dhahab, volume two, page 297
The Shaykh : Ah, the references, meaning
The Reader: Yes
The Shaykh : O Allah ... O Allah ... what remains of it?
The Student: ... al-'Alaf and his like
Another student : ...
The Shaykh : It does not mean considering the others
The Shaykh : Okay.
The Reader: al-'Alaf
The Shaykh : That is a good observation, yes, yes, yes
The student: ...
The Shaykh : Yes, yes
The Student: Because he mentioned more than one verse ...
The Shaykh : Ah
The Reader: "Al-'Alaf is Muhammad ibn Huzayl ibn 'Ubayd Allah ibn Makhlul ibn Huzayl al-'Alaf, a freed slave of Abd al-Qays, the Shaykh of the Mu'tazilah and the author of books on their doctrines. He was from the people of Basra and went to Baghdad. He was foul in his speech, he divided the consensus of the Muslims, and he rejected" "the explicit text of the Book of Allah, Mighty and Majestic, when he claimed that the people of Paradise will have their movements cut off therein until ... until there will be ... and they will not speak a word. So it necessitated for them the statement of ... the severance of the bliss of Paradise from them. And Allah, the Exalted, says: 'Their food is eternal'"
The Shaykh : Their food, here
The Reader: Their food
Their food is eternal
أكلها دائمThe Shaykh : Yes
The Reader: "And he denied the attributes of Allah by which He described Himself, and he claimed that knowledge is Allah and that the power of Allah is Allah, so he made Allah His knowledge and His power" "and His power. Exalted is Allah above what he described of Him, greatly. ... Al-Ma'mun al-Hajbi al-Yawmi said: Look at who is at the door from among the people of Kalam. So he went out and returned to him, and he said: At the door is Abu al-Huzayl al-'Alaf, who is a Mu'tazili, and 'Abd Allah ibn ... ibn Hisham ibn ... the Rafidi. And al-Ma'mun said: No one from the people of the torment of Hell remains but that he is present. And from Abu Ya'qub al-Sha... he said: I asked Abu al-Huzayl in which year he was born, and he said: Abu ... informed me that Ibrahim ibn 'Abd Allah ibn 'Abd Allah ibn al-Hasan was killed when I was ten years old, and Ibrahim was killed in the year 145. So that indicates that Abu al-Huzayl was born in the year 135. And Abu al-Huzayl died in the first year of the caliphate of al-Mutawakkil, in the year 235. And he"
The Shaykh : How old does that make him?
The student: One hundred.
The Shaykh : One hundred years old
The Reader: "And his years were one hundred years" This transmission is from the History of Baghdad, volume two, page 366
And al-Dhahabi said in Siyar A'lam al-Nubala, volume ten, page 542: "And he took the doctrine of the Mu'tazilah from ... Khalid ... in ... and Wasi' ibn 'Ata' al-Ghazali" "al-Ghazali. And the life of Abu al-Huzayl was long, and he passed ninety years, and he departed in the year 227. And it is said he remained until the year 230. And 'Ali ibn Yasin and others from the Mu'tazilah took from him"
The Shaykh : ... O Allah ... O Allah, make us firm
The Reader: And the author of Shadharaat al-Dhahab fi Akhbar Man Zahab said that al-Falah, and from Abu al-Falah 'Abd al-Hayy ibn 'Uthman, the author of Shadharaat al-Dhahab fi Akhbar Man Zahab, Abu al-Falah 'Abd al-Hayy ibn 'Imad al-Hanbali, volume two, page 85: "Ibn Huzayl died in the year 135, or it is said in the year 226. He was the Shaykh of the Mu'tazilah and the head of religious innovation, and he had"
The Shaykh : ... when did he die?
The Reader: "Abu al-Huzayl died"
The Shaykh : Yes
The Reader: "in the year 235, or it is said in the year 226"
The Shaykh : Yes
The Reader: "and he was the Shaykh of the Mu'tazilah and the head of religious innovation, and he had about one hundred years. He said: And in al-Ibar" "he said in al-Ibar: And he used to say in the annihilation of the people of the Fire, and he mentioned" these biographies here
And the verifier of the tenth part of Siyar A'lam al-Nubala, Muhammad Na'im ... al-'Arqusi, mentioned his biography among the biographies of al-'Alat ... the biographies. If these are the biographies of al-'Alat in al-Nujum al-Zahirah, volume two, page 248, and Muraajid al-Dhahab, volume two, page 297
The Shaykh : Ah, the references, meaning
The Reader: Yes
The Shaykh : O Allah ... O Allah ... what remains of it?
The Student: ... al-'Alaf and his like
Another student : ...
The Shaykh : It does not mean considering the others