Muhammad ibn Karram | |
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Personal life | |
Born | 190 H/ 806 CE |
Died | 255 H/ 868 CE |
Era | Early Islamic (Abbasid Era) |
Main interest(s) | Aqeedah, Hadith |
Notable idea(s) | Iman-Iqrar Equivalence |
Notable work(s) | Kitab 'Azab al-Qabr, Kitab al-Tawhid |
Occupation | Scholar of Islam |
Religious life | |
Religion | Islam |
Denomination | Karramiyya[1][Note 1] |
Jurisprudence | Hanafi |
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Abu 'Abd Allah Muhammad ibn Karram al-Sijistani (Arabic: أبو عبد الله محمد بن كَرَّام السجستاني) was an ascetic, hellfire preacher, hadith narrator, and a literalist theologian who founded the Karramiyya sect. His views were considered heretical, schismatic, and abominable by the majority of Sunni scholars. He was accused of holding the doctrine of anthropomorphism, and that his chief theological doctrine was that God is a substance (jawhar) and that he had a body (jism); for which reason his followers were commonly called the "Mujassima" (corporealists) and "Mushabbiha" (anthropomorphists).[6][7][8][9][10] [Note 2]
Some sources reported that he was of Arab descent,[13] and his lineage belongs to the Bani Nizar, or Bani Turab (the people or sons of Turab),[14] and according to some, to the Arab tribe of the Banu Nadhir.[15] It has been said that Ibn Taymiyya (d. 728/1328) took inspiration from him.[16]
وقام أيضاً أبو عبد الله محمد بن كرام بسجستان ونواحيها ينصر مذهب أهل السنة والجماعة، والمثبتة للصفات والقدر وحب الصحابة وغير ذلك، ويرد على الجهمية والمعتزلة والرافضة وغيرهم، ويوافقهم على أصول مقالاتهم التي بها قالوا ما قالوا، ويخالفهم في لوازمها، كما خالفهم ابن كلاب والأشعري، لكن هؤلاء منتسبون إلى السنة والحديث، وابن كرام منتسب إلى مذهب أهل الرأي
Among later Muslim thinkers Ebn Taymiya (d. 728/1328) stands out as a sympathetic, if critical, student of Karrāmi theology, and he took it upon himself to write an extensive commentary on Faḵr-al-Din Rāzi's anti-Karrāmi work Asās al-taqdis, in which he defended the traditionist and Karrāmi positions on the key points of dispute
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