We have already discussed other kufr statements from Abū Ḥanīfah. But this kafir Abu Hanifa also had some kufr views about the Qur’an. He said:
“His attributes are eternal, they have not been originated or created, and who says that it is created or originated is a disbeliever in Allah Almighty, and the Quran is the word of Allah the Almighty, it is written in the Quran books (Masahif) and stored in the hearts and it is recited by the tongues of the people and it has been revealed to the Prophet سلم و عليه الله صلى and our wording of the Quran is created and when we write it it is created and our recitation of it is created, and the Quran is uncreated. (Al-Fiqh Al-Akbar of Abu Hanifa Al-Nu’man p.20)
Takfir of the individual of the Lafdhiyya Jahmiyya and testifying that he’s in the Fire
The scholars from the salaf refuted this evil kuft.
Al-Shafii said: “Who says: My utterance of the Quran is created, or the Quran in my pronounciation is created, is a jahmi.” (Sharh Usul Al-Itiqaad – Lalkaaie 599)
Ahmad bin Shadhaan bin Khalid Al-Hamadhaaniy said ‘I heard Ahmad bin Hanbal saying: “He who says my wording of Quran is Makhluq (created) is a Jahmi, Mukhalad (forever inhabiting) the Fire.” Then he said: “And he’s a Mushrik with Allah The most Great!”’ [Al-Maqsad Il-Arshad by Ibn Muflih]
And he said: The Jahmis – May Allah curse them – are variying categories:
- some of them say: The Quran is not the speech of Allah nor is it created.
- and some of them say: It’s a quotation of the Quran.
- some of them say: Our pronounciation of the Quran is created,
- and some say: The Quran of our pronounciation is created.
- and from them who say: We don’t declare takfir of them rather we stay silent about them.
Hence all these catagories are Jahmiyyah and they’re Kuffar Zanadiq lawful to kill. And whosoever doesn’t declare takfir on ALL those catagories then he’s a Kafir Zindeeq lawful to kill. [Al-Risalah al-Wadiha fi al-rad ala al-Ashariah]
Ahmad bin Husein bin Hassan told me that Al-Talqani asked Abu Abdillah (Ahmad bin Hanbal) about Al-Lafdhiyya * then he said:
“They are neither seated with nor spoken to.” (Al Sunnah of Al-Khallal 1815)
Al-Bukhari said to Abu Abdillah Ahmad bin Hanbal: I am a man who is tribulated, it is a tribulation that I didn’t tell you but I will tell. So if I deny anything then correct me: The Quran from the beginning to its end is the speech of Allah and nothing of it is created. And who says that it is created or that something of it is created, then he is a kafir. And who claims that his utterance of the Quran is created then he is a jahmi kafir? He said: Yes. (Tabaqat Al-Hanabila 1/278-279)