آراء محمد بن خفيف الشيرازي (ت 371 هـ)‎ : العقدية في مسائل الإيمان

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This research sheds light on one of the most prominent Sufi scholars in the fourth century of the prophet's migration, and one of the most famous disciples of Abu al-Hasan al-Ash'ari, who had his presence and great scientific position among the jurists of the Shafi'i school and the Ash'ari school, Muhammad Bin Khafif al-Shirazi.

it is attributed to his country shiraz in Persia, and our world this shafi'i doctrine in jurisprudence and attributed to the Ash'ari, has pointed out gold zehr orientalist Hungarian, in his memoirs something about the status of Muhammad Bin Kharif, he said : "the mention of Ibn Khafif among the Shafi'i scholars, gave him a special place among Sufism." not only that, the status of ibn Khafif has reached a prominent position in the teaching of the Ash'ari doctrine, confirmed by one of their scholars, namely al-Baqlani, he says mimicking a meeting with ibn al-Khafif : "I went out to shiraz, when I entered the city received me ibn al-Khafif in a group of Sufis and Sunnis, when we sat in a place where ibn al-Khafif was studying his companions "shine" of sheikh Abu al-Hassan al-Ash'ari, I told him : he continued to teach as I was, and he said to me : may god fix you, but I am like an orphan when there is no water, and if there is water, there is no need for tayammum.

I said to him : may Allah reward you with good, and you are not an orphan, but you have a lot of luck from this knowledge, and you are right, and god will grant you victory.

Ibn Khafif has been praised by many scholars such as Ibn Taymiyyah, Ibn al-Qayyim, Ibn Kathir and al-Samaani, and our contemporary scholars have preserved Ibn Khafif's deserved position, being-with their testimony-on the doctrine of Ahl al-Sunnah w al-Jama'ah, including Shaykh 'Abd al-'Azeez Ibn Ba (may Allah have mercy on him), said of him : "it is according to the doctrine of Ahl al-Sunnah w al-Jama'ah and that it has the power of investigation and perfection of knowledge.