The Text

ابن قدامة ، أخبرنا الشريف أبو العباس مسعود بن عبد الواحد بن مطر الهاشمي ، قال انبأ أبو الحسن على بن محمد الجرجاني ، أنبأ أبو القاسم حمزة بن يوسف السهمي ، أنبأ أبو بكر أحمد بن إبراهيم الإسماعيلي (*) ، قال :

[ اصول الاعتقاد عند أهل الحديث ]


اعلموا رحمنا الله وإياكم أن مذهب أهل الحديث أهل السنة والجماعة الإقرار بالله وملائكته وكتبه ورسله ، وقبول ما نطق به كتاب الله تعالى ، وصحت به الرواية عن رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم ، لا معدل عن ما ورد به ولا سبيل إلى رده ، إذ كانوا مأمورين باتباع الكتاب والسنة ، مضمونا لهم الهدى فيهما ، مشهودا لهم بأن نبيهم صلى الله عليه وسلم يهدي إلى صراط مستقيم ، محذرين في مخالفته الفتنة والعذاب الأليم

Ibnul-Qudaamah said
“We were informed by Sharif Abul-‘Abbass Mas’ood bin Abdul-Waahid Bin Matr al-Haashimi who said < It was informed to us that Abul-Hasan Ali Bin Muhammad al-Jurjaani who said< We were informed by Abul-Qaasim Hamza Bin Yusif as-Sahmi who said < we were informed by Abu Bakr Ahmad Bin Ibraheem al-Ismaa’eeli who said

1. The Foundational beliefs of the Ahlul-Hadeeth

As you know, Allah have mercy on us, and to those upon the madhaab of ahlul-hadeeth, the ahlu-sunnah wal-jama’ah, is to have firm conviction with (in) Allah and the Angels and His Divine Books and His Messengers and accepting whatever is said in the Book of Allah the Most High (The Quraan) and what is authentically said (reported) about the narrations of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. There’s no abstention about what it came in and no way to it’s response (in refutation of it), since they were ordered with following the book and the sunnah which guaranteed for them guidance (that is in it: i.e. book and sunnah), And is well known to them that their prophet salallahu alaihi wa sallam only guides to the right path and warns against its violation and divergence (or sedition) and the painful torment”