حديث : (إن الله خلق الرحمة مائة رحمة)‎ : دراسة عقدية تحليلية

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Research title: The Hadīth (Certainly Allāh created mercy into one hundred portions) a Foundational Study in Creed Research contents: a clarification on what is intended by “mercy”, that it is an attribute from the attributes of Allāh the Most High, and a clarification on the wordings and narrations of this Hadīth.

Also contained in this research: the negation of mercy as an attribute of Allāh the Most High by the innovators in the religion, their allegation that the word “mercy”is an expression for what He creates from blessings or for the will to bestow blessings, as well as their claim that they are declaring Allāh above being likened to the creation; and this is irrelevant since the attributes of Allāh befit His Majesty and Greatness, just as Allāh has a being that does not resemble other beings, He also has attributes that do not resemble the attributes of the creation.

Also contained in this research: the combination between mercy being one of the attributes of Allāh and what is mentioned in this Hadīth of mercy being created, and a clarification that the word “mercy”appears as two types: - ascription to Allāh the way an attribute is ascribed to the one being described by it; and this is the type which is one of the attributes of Allāh - ascription in the way an object of a verb is ascribed to its subject; and this is the type of mercy which is created Also contained in this research: clarifying the confusion of the people regarding the ascriptions to Allāh; from them are those who took the ascriptions as a medium to negate the attributes, and from them are those who deemed all of the ascriptions to be ascriptions of attributes, and the truth is that the ascriptions to Allāh are of two types: - ascription of an attribute that can not stand by itself, and this is what is called a descriptive ascription, like when we say “the knowledge of Allāh”and “the speech of Allāh” - ascription to Allāh to make a distinction, and this is what is called an ascription of ownership (of that which is created by Allāh); this type of ascription indicates honouring, such as “the house of Allāh”and “the she-camel of Allāh” Also contained in this research: the obligation of combining between hope and fear, so one is not excessive in hope as the Murji’ah are, nor is he excessive in fear such that he ends up like the Khawārij.

Also, that there is no objection to leaning more towards hope in times of sickness and more towards fear in times of health, nor to leaning more towards hope with regards to acts of obedience so that one is eager to do them and leaning more towards fear regarding acts of disobedience so that one flees from them.