Nasb-and-the-Nawasib

Allah and His Messenger has certainly attained a great attainment. 1,2
Now to our topic:
After Allah E favoured me by making me a student of higher studies, on the
master’s level, of ʿAqīdah, belief, and contemporary schools therein; I preferred
that the topic of my thesis for this level be Naṣb and the Nawāṣib, a doctrinal
study in light of the position of the Ahl al-Sunnah. This was after I had sought
goodness from Allah E.
This is because studying any innovative denomination which has surfaced in the
early stages of the history of this Ummah, knowing the causes of its inception,
studying its doctrinal views, identifying its link with other Islamic denominations,
and thereafter ascertaining the position of the Ahl al-Sunnah regarding it is of
utmost importance. In order to identify the areas of deviance and their causes,
and answer and refute the misconceptions of the deviants, which is pivotal.
In addition, many of the other leanings, like Irjāʾ, Iʿtizāl, and Tashayyuʿ have been
thoroughly studied and analysed. Naṣb, however, remains neglected since the
bygone eras without any light being shed on it; it has always remained distant
from academic research which could reveal its unknown aspects.
1 Sūrah Aḥzāb: 72.
2 This is the Khuṭbah al-Ḥājah, the sermon of need, which Nabī H would teach his companions,
as is reported by Ibn Masʿūd I. It appears in the following books: Abū Dāwūd: Sunan Abī Dāwūd:
chapter of Nikāḥ: sub-chapter regarding Khuṭbah al-Ḥājah: ḥadīth no. 2118; al-Tirmidhī: Sunan al-
Tirmidhī: chapter of Nikāḥ: subchapter regarding Khuṭbah of Nikāḥ: ḥadīth no. 1105; al-Nasāʾī: Sunan
al-Nasāʾī: chapter of Nikāḥ: sub-chapter regarding the speech which is recommended in Nikāḥ: ḥadīth
no. 3277; Ibn Mājah: Sunan Ibn Mājah: chapter of Nikāḥ: subchapter regarding the Khuṭbah of Nikāḥ:
ḥadīth no. 1893. The ḥadīth is considered Ḥasan by al-Tirmidhī, in his Sunan, and Ibn al-Mulaqqan in
al-Badr al-Munīr 7/531). Albānī has considered it to be Ṣaḥīḥ in his book Ṣaḥīḥ wa Ḍaʿīf Sunan Abī Dāwūd.
He has also dedicated a booklet to it with the title: Khuṭbah al-Ḥājah al-latī kān Rasūl Allah Yuʿallimuhā
Aṣḥābahū (the sermon of need which Nabī H would teach his companions).
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