A Muslim Convert Once Before

بِسۡمِ ٱللهِ ٱلرَّحۡمَـٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ   The following is adapted from “Refutations of Shaykh ibn Taymiyyah’s ( r.a. ) Two Doctrines of Tawhid ” by Ustadz Abu Hamid ibn Marzuq.   Imam Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Hanbal ( r.a. ), the imam of the madzhab of Shaykh Taqi’ ad-Din Ahmad ibn ‘Abd al-Halim ibn Taymiyyah ( r.a. ), never said that tawhid consisted in two parts: tawhid ar-rububiyyah and tawhid al-uluhiyyah .   Imam Ahmad ( r.a. ) also never said, “Whoever does not know tawhid al-uluhiyyah , then his knowledge of tawhid ar-rububiyyah is not taken into account because the idolaters also had such knowledge.”   This is not part of Imam ibn Hanbal’s ( r.a. ) doctrine of ‘aqidah , and is not found in the compilations of his followers such as Imam Abu al-Faraj ‘Abd ar-Rahman ibn ‘Ali ibn al-Jawzy’s ( r.a. ) Manaqib Ahmad ibn Hanbal , and other books.   This innovated doctrine of Shaykh ibn Taymiyyah ( r.a. ) is not found in the works and teachings of any of ...