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he is a heretic without a certain madhhab. See how the famousbook Fat’h al-majîd, too, praises Ibn Jarîr on its 294th page:“There has been nobody more learned than Muhammad ibnJarîr ibn Yazîd at-Tabarî on the earth. He was one of themujtahidîn. He did not copy (taqlîd) from anybody. He had manydisciples educated in his own madhhab. He passed away in theyear 310[A.H.]” It writes that Ibn Jarîr was a non-madhhabite.And Sayyid Qutb approves and praises only this person amongthe ’ulamâ’ of tafsîr.’Abd al-Ghanî an-Nablusî wrote: “Though it is permissible tohold an imitative belief (taqlîd) on what you hear concerningi’tiqâd, you will be sinful because you have not studied andexamined. In a’mâl and ’ibâdât, it is permissible throughunanimity of scholars to follow (taqlîd) a madhhab leaderwithout research. Since there has not been any person for along time to accumulate in himself the conditions for being amujtahid, it is necessary to learn one of the four madhhabs. Andthis is possible only by reading a dependable book or by askingand learning from a pious scholar. There is no mujtahid mutlaqany more. But until the end of the world, there will be thosemujtahids who are dependent on one of the four madhhabs andwho can perform ijtihâd and give fatwâ in matters within amadhhab. It is not permissible to learn religious knowledge onlyby reading any religious book or by asking and understandingfrom anybody who passes for a religious man. Among thoseprofoundly learned in the branches of Tafsîr and Hadîth. Two of hismost valuable works are Jâmi’ul-bayân, a book of Tafsîrconsisting of twenty-three volumes, and Târîh-ul-umam, amasterpiece of history, which was abridged by a Shiite named Alîbin Muhammad Shimshâtî. This Shiite-laced abridgement, whichwas translated into Turkish and entitled Taberî Târîhi (History ofTabarî), misleads those who read it. It is written on the sixty-eighth(68) page of the book Mukhtasar-i-Tuhfa-i-ithnâ ashariyya byAlûsî that Muhammad bin Jarîr bin Rustam Tabarî is a Shiite. Andthat Muhammad bin Abil-Qâsim is another Shiite is written inAsmâ-ul-muallifîn. These people should not be confused withHadrat (Abû Ja’far Muhammad) ibn Jarîr. On the other hand, abook of Tafsîr which is mistaken for the book of Tafsîr of Tabarîentitled Jâmi’ul-bayân is the Shiite book of Tafsîr entitled Tabarsî,a pseudo title for the book Majma’ul bayân by Fadl bin HasanTabarî (d. 548 [A.D. 1153], a member of the aberrant Shiite sectImâmiyya.- 236 -