He Refuted Shaykh Taqi’ ad-Din Ahmad ibn ‘Abd al-Halim ibn Taymiyyah’s (r.a.) ‘Aqidah

بِسۡمِ ٱللهِ ٱلرَّحۡمَـٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ

Imam Abu al-Hasan Taqi’ ad-Din ‘Ali ibn ‘Abd al-Kafi’ as-Subki (r.a.) wrote a refutation of Shaykh Taqi’ ad-Din Ahmad ibn ‘Abd al-Halim ibn Taymiyyah’s (r.a.) dangerous ideas that later inspired the Wahhabi sect.  Shaykh ibn Taymiyyah (r.a.) repented from them eventually.  But generations later, Muhammad ibn ‘Abd al-Wahhab took them up, leading to their anthropomorphism.  That book is ad-Durra al-Mudiyyah fi ar-Radd ‘ala ibn Taymiyyah, “The Luminous Pearl: A Refutation of ibn Taymiyyah”.  The recently published version was edited by Shaykh Muhammad Zahid ibn Hasan al-Kawtsari (r.a.).  Imam as-Subki (r.a.) further wrote refutations of Shaykh ibn Taymiyyah (r.a.) and his foremost student, Imam Shams ad-Din Abu ‘Abdullah Muhammad ibn Abu Bakr ibn al-Qayyim al-Jawziyyah (q.s.), ar-Rasa’il as-Subkiyyah fi ar-Radd ‘ala ibn Taymiyyah wa Tilmidzihi ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyyah, “as-Subki’s Treatises in Answer to ibn Taymiyyah & His Pupil, ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyyah”.  He then wrote one specifically against Imam ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyyah (q.s.), addressed as “ibn Zafil”, as-Sayf as-Saqil fi ar-Radd ‘ala ibn Zafil, “The Burnished Sword in Refuting ibn Zafil”.  Imam Taqi ad-Din as-Subki (r.a.) also wrote Shifa’ as-Siqam fi Ziyarat Khayr al-Anam, “The Healing of the Sick in Visiting the Best of Creation”, in response to Shaykh ibn Taymiyyah’s (r.a.) outrageous fatwa that it is haram to travel for the purpose of ziyarat of the Rawdhah of Rasulullah (s.a.w.).  This caused Shaykh ibn Taymiyyah (r.a.) to retract his fatwa. 

Shaykh al-Islam, Imam Taqi ad-Din as-Subki (r.a.) was not afraid to call these innovations of Shaykh ibn Taymiyyah (r.a.) what they were - kufr, and was amongst his leading critics and detractors.  Now, we have Muslims who are afraid to do the same thing to those who adhere to the very same innovated ideas, and instead of calling them back to Islam, as the Muslims did with Shaykh ibn Taymiyyah (r.a.), eventually causing him to repent and die a Muslim, Muslims now embrace these people as legitimate and even embrace, leading the ummah astray.  Perhaps a good example is Zayd Shakir Ricky Daryl Mitchell’s defence of the Wahhabi sect as part of Sunni Islam when their creed is pure anthropomorphism.  These people have betrayed the ummah.