The ancient text has been explained by the former Mufti of the Jizan province in Saudi Arabia, al ‘Allamah Ahmad Ibn Yahya an Najmi (d.1429H). The com-
mentary is included to make this work comprehensible and clear to the average Muslim reader. Additional notes have been added from various printings of
Sharhus Sunnah to provide a comprehensive and historical context to the benefits contained herein. So we hope as Imam al-Muzani hoped that this book
will, “clarify to you from the Sunnah an affair that you may make yourself patient in adherence to it and avert thereby the doubtful sayings and the deviation
in the newly-invented affairs of the misguided ones.”
Shaykh al-Islam Muhammad b. ‘Abdul Wahhab (rahimahullah) clarifies in this compilation a number of the essential beliefs and fundamental principles of the religion of islam in a concise but comprehensive fashion. It stands out due to its precise and clear statements, which are based upon the evidences of the Quran and authentic Sunnah.
It has been mentioned by the Scholar of Iraq, Nʿumān al-Ālūsī, in his excellent book Jalā al-ʿAynayn Lī Muhākamah al-Aḥmadayn, and Shaykh ʿAbd al-Salām b. Burjis mentioned this poem as being amongst the poetry of Ibn Taymīyah in his work al-Ṣaḥīḥ Min al-Naẓm al-Faṣīḥ Lī Shaykh al-Islām Ibn Taymīyah; and a number of Scholars have explanations of this poem, from them is Shaykh Ahmad al-Mardawī (d. 1236H) written almost two hundred years ago, Shaykh al-Islām Ibn Taymīyah (V) said: “As for Ahl al-Sunnah Wa al-Ḥadīth, then it is not known that any of their scholars nor righteous common-folk ever renounced their doctrine and creed. Rather, they were the most patient of the people upon that, even if they were tested with all types of tests and trialed with all types of tribulations.” Naqḍ al-Manṭiq, p. 42.
The Imām of Imāms, Ibn Khuzaymah, said: “I heard Muḥammad bin Saḥnūn saying: ‘I heard Abū ‘Umayr bin an-Niḥḥās ar-Ramlī mention Aḥmad bin Ḥanbal, saying: “May Allāh have mercy upon him on behalf of the dunyā; how patient is he and how resemblant is he to those who have passed away and the righteous people, and how near is he to them! The dunyā was presented to him, but he refused it. Innovation was presented to him and he refuted it.”’”
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