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Mu'min (believer)

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The mu'min in Sunni usage is one who believes what the Prophet ﷺ brought and acknowledges all he said and informed — 'we name the people of our qibla Muslims and believers, so long as they hold what the Prophet brought and acknowledge all he said' 1; Ibn Taymiyya's Kitab al-Iman is devoted to defining it and the theologians' dispute over it 2.

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The mu'min in Sunni usage is one who believes what the Prophet brought and acknowledges all he said — 'we name the people of our qibla Muslims and believers' 1.

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Ibn Taymiyya's Kitab al-Iman is devoted to the reality of iman and the theologians' dispute over it — some confining it to assent, others including deeds 2; the creed affirms grave sinners among the believers do not remain forever in the Fire 3.

People and things also explored

The ruling on one who abandons prayer· Ada' (performance of an obligation within its time)· Adhan (the call to prayer: its ruling, wording, conditions, recommended features and the muezzin)· Bone (adhm): purity, use and retaliation· The adornment of desires and the goods of this world· The people of the bench (ahl al-suffa)· The earth made a place of prayer and purity· Spending in the way of God (infaq)

Sources

  1. al-Aqida al-Tahawiyya, Dar Ibn Hazm 1995 , §73
  2. Ibn Taymiyya, Kitab al-Iman
  3. al-Aqida al-Tahawiyya, Dar Ibn Hazm 1995 , §89
  • Sharh al-Tahawiyya, Ibn Abi al-Izz al-Hanafi (Dar al-Hadith, Cairo)
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islam.museum contributors. “Mu'min (believer)”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/concept/mumin/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-22.

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The ruling on one who abandons prayer

Al-Sallabi quotes Ali: whoever does not pray is an unbeliever. He then reports from al-Nawawi the dispute over one who neglects prayer while believing it obligatory: the majority (Malik, al-Shafi'i) hold him a sinner to be asked to repent, others hold him an unbeliever, a view ascribed to Ali; Abu Hanifa and the Kufans hold him not an unbeliever but to be disciplined.