Qadariyya

القدرية، وعند البلخي في الفهرست أول من تكلم في القدر والاعتزال أبو يونس الأسواري المعروف بسنسويه رجل من الأساورة وتابعه معبد الجهني ويقال إن سليمان بن عبد الملك تكلم فيه {cite:fihrist-ibn-al-nadim p. 557}

A sect to which is ascribed the view that people have capacity (istita'a) and will over their acts, and that their knowledge of those acts does not precede God's knowledge; the book describes their view as it relays it, and compares it with the doctrines of the People of the Book and the Magians.

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At a glance

Era: The Early Abbasid Caliphate
Region: Levant & Iraq
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Sects and schools Creed

Overview

The Qadariyya, according to the book's description, claim that capacity, will and power belong to them, that they own their deeds, good and evil, and that servants know their deeds without God's prior knowledge of them. ¹ The book holds that their view resembles that of the Magians and the Christians, and that it is the root of heresy. ¹

Opinions on the question

First opinion · Sunni tradition (the museum's frame) · Sunni (Hanbali)Main reference

Basis: al-Madkhal ila Madhhab al-Imam Ahmad ibn Hanbal — Ibn Badran (al-Turki edition)

More opinions (1)

Sunni tradition (the museum's frame) · Sunni (Hanbali)Main reference

Listed among the sects of misguidance in Lum'at al-i'tiqad; described as the book describes them

Ibn Qudama lists this sect among the sects of misguidance; the editor's footnote gives its origin (2nd ed., pp. 113–115).

Held by: Ibn Qudama al-Maqdisi Lum'at al-I'tiqad

Basis: Lum'at al-I'tiqad, Ibn Qudama al-Maqdisi (ed. Muhammad ibn Abd al-Rahman al-Furayhan ibn Uraye'ir, Dar Rakaez, 1443 AH) pp. 113–115 (2nd ed.), editor's footnote on origins

People and things also explored

The people of the qibla and not declaring takfir for sin· Ghayba (occultation)· Ilm al-kalam (speculative theology)· The Imamate· Infallibility of the Imams (Twelver Shi'a)· The doctrine of the awaited Mahdi (al-mahdiyya)· Raj'a (the return to the world)· Disavowal (tabarri) of the Companions in Twelver Shi'a sources

Sources

al-Madkhal ila Madhhab al-Imam Ahmad ibn Hanbal — Ibn Badran (al-Turki edition) , p.96

Lum'at al-I'tiqad, Ibn Qudama al-Maqdisi (ed. Muhammad ibn Abd al-Rahman al-Furayhan ibn Uraye'ir, Dar Rakaez, 1443 AH)

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The people of the qibla and not declaring takfir for sin

al-Tahawi's principle of calling the people of the qibla Muslims and believers so long as they accept what the Prophet brought, and of not declaring any of them an unbeliever for a sin unless he declares it lawful.