Al-Tahawi

He's buried there in Egypt, in Cairo, earlier this year, alhamdulillah, the opportunity of visiting his grave.

There's many great giants who are buried in the city of Cairo, from Imam Shafi'i to Imam Warish to Tahawi to Imam Suyuti.

Ibn Daqiq al-Eid rahimallah.

Many of these great, great scholars, they're buried there in Cairo.

Alright? Was shown paradise in that dimension.

There's a difference between about Ilyas but the fact is that the Prophet was taken and brought to paradise in hell.

What's the difference between the Aqeelah of Ibn Taymiyyah and Imam Tahawiyah? Actually there's quite a bit of difference.

Ibn Taymiyyah had wrote a number of books on Aqeelah.

Aqeelah Tadmuriya, Hamawiya, Wasitiyya.

Verily traveling is only to three masajid.

And that's the wording of Al-Bazaar and Al-Tahawi and Ibn Hibban.

So the word Rihla, traveling itself, is something well known within the Qur'an and Sunnah.

But as for the meaning of traveling and the virtues of traveling and encouragement to travel, then there are many within the Qur'an and Sunnah.

So Ibn Rajab, for example, Ibn Rajab is known as Hanbali.

Now, Imam Tahawi, Hanafi.

But all of them are Ahl as-Sunnah.

What has been referred to here now, alhamdulillah, uh, rather, relation to Muhammad Ilyas is, yani, this clinging to a madhhab in a manner which is of ta'assub wa taqlid, in the blind following of the madhhab.

But since Isa ﷺ and after, these kind of like miracles subsized all the way until the time of the Prophet ﷺ now.

There are a number of snats for this report, which is also narrated by At-Tahawi in At-Tahdeeb and by others.

In Musnad al-Imam Ahmed, it says that Sulaiman ibn Dawud went out to pray for rain, and he saw an ant lying on its back, raising its leg towards the heavens and saying, O Allah, we are part of your creation, and we cannot do without your rain and your provision.

Either send us rain and provision, or let us die.

That kind of Kalam is fine because what we're doing is taking the Ahlus Sunnah wal Jama'ah, their ideas, and just answering these problems and based on those circumstances and the needs of the time.

When you study aqeedah and when you look at Imam Tahawi's work or Al-Fiqh Al-Akbar, for example, you'll find that it primarily deals with one of three major themes.

The first one is called ilahiyat, right? Ilahiyat, from the word ilah.

Basically, ilahiyata, uh, is the discussion on the divine being, Allah, and his attributes.

He knows how they will be if he brought them into existence.

He knows all of these things from before.

And this is exactly the things that Imam Tahawi will be speaking about, where he talks about how Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala knows everything from eternity about what will come into being when he brings them into being, right? And Allah is the one who chooses that.

So our mere existence here and our transfer from the abode of unexistence to existence is by merit of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala only.