Al-Sawad al-A'zam

Al-Radd 'ala Ashab al-Hawa[1] (Arabic: الرد على أصحاب الهوى, lit.'Refutation of those holding heretical views'), better known as al-Sawad al-A'zam 'ala Madhhab al-Imam al-A'zam Abi Hanifa (Arabic: السواد الأعظم على مذهب الإمام الأعظم أبى حنيفة, The vast majority of people who follow the teaching of the greatest Imam Abu Hanifa), is a book written by al-Hakim al-Samarqandi, and is considered as the oldest theological work in accordance with the Maturidite school, after Kitab al-Tawhid (The Book of Monotheism) by Abu Mansur al-Maturidi.[Note 1]

  1. ^ Carl Brockelmann (2017). History of the Arabic Written Tradition Supplement, Volume 1. Brill Publishers. p. 296. ISBN 9789004334625.
  2. ^ Aiyub Palmer (2019). Sainthood and Authority in Early Islam: Al-Hakim al-Tirmidhi's Theory of wilāya and the Reenvisioning of the Sunni Caliphate. Brill Publishers. pp. 115–116. ISBN 9789004416550.


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