Forty Hadith by Ibn Taymiyyah Ahmed Abdel Halim Ibn Taymiyyah

About the author of The Forty of Ibn Taymiyya (al-Arba'un al-Taymiyya)

Ibn Taymiyya was born in the city of Harran in 661 AH, corresponding to 1263 CE. He was the son of the Hanbali jurist Abd al-Halim ibn Taymiyya and Sitt al-Ni'am bint Abd al-Rahman al-Harraniyya, and he grew up in Harran during the first years of his life. When he was seven years old, his family was forced to emigrate from Harran to Damascus in 667 AH because of Tatar raids on the city

When the family reached Damascus, his father Abd al-Halim ibn Taymiyya began teaching at the Umayyad Mosque and at the Sukkariyya hadith school. Ibn Taymiyya grew up in Damascus and studied the religious sciences under more than two hundred sheikhs in various disciplines, and began writing and teaching at the age of seventeen. After his father's death in 682 AH, he succeeded him as teacher at the Sukkariyya hadith school, and he also held a lesson in Quranic exegesis at the Umayyad Mosque, in addition to a lesson at the Hanbali school.

About the book The Forty of Ibn Taymiyya

The emirs asked the Sultan's deputy to mediate to end their dispute with Ibn Taymiyya, and for him to abandon his censure of them and leave them to their affairs. But Ibn Taymiyya replied that he could not retreat from his position, that everyone must adhere to the Book and the Sunnah in word and deed, and that whoever contravenes this is subject to censure by all

Key topics of The Forty of Ibn Taymiyya

Performing Hajj and Umrah at the command of the Messenger / Among the virtues of Umar ibn al-Khattab / The etiquette of remembering God / The increase and decrease of faith / The command to kill snakes / The dowry of Paradise */ The sin of issuing fatwas without knowledge / The ritual bath after major impurity / On the fasting person who reaches dawn in a state of major impurity