📘 ❞ Foundation of the Sunnah ❝ كتاب ــ الامام احمد ابن حنبل

عن كتاب Foundation of the Sunnah:
Indeed all praise belongs to Allaah, we praise Him, seek His aid
and His forgiveness. We seek refuge in Allaah from the evils of
our souls and the evils of our actions. Whomsoever Allaah
guides there is none to misguide and whomsoever Allaah
misguides there is none to guide. I bear witness that none has
the right to be worshipped except Allaah Alone; without any
partners and I bear witness that Muhammad is His servant and
Messenger. Allaah sent him to remove mankind from the abyss
of misguidance and shirk to the light of Islaam and guidance.
To proceed:
This is the second treatise in the collection ‘Aqaa’idus-Salaf wa
Ashaabul-Hadeeth (The Beliefs of the Pious Predecessors and
the People of Hadeeth). I present it to the respected readers
after Allaah has ennobled me by making me concerned with it
and by checking and verifying the ahaadeeth mentioned
therein, (all) by the bounty of Allaah, the Exalted.
The importance of this treatise, like the importance of the one
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is that it belongs to an honorable Imam, the revered
Imam, the scholar, the teacher, the Reviver of the Sunnah, the
Subduer of Innovation, Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Hanbal, may
Allaah be pleased with him.
And this is a summarisation of his belief, may Allaah have
mercy upon him, drawn from the Qur’aan and the Sunnah and

from that which the scholars of the Salaf and the Ashaabul-
Hadeeth (People of Hadeeth) were upon and which they

adopted and divulged and made the people hold as their belief.
I was eager that those whose works are included in this
collection be (only) those whom the scholars can depend upon
with respect to their sayings, as well as the smallness and



This is the second treatise in the collection The Beliefs of the Pious Predecessors and the People of Hadeeth. The Author present it to the respected readers after Allah has ennobled him by making him concerned with it and by checking and verifying the ahaadeeth mentioned therein, all by the bounty of Allah, the Exalted