al-Aqida al-Tahawiyya (the Tahawi creed)

"Al-Aqida al-Tahawiyya" (The Tahawi Creed), a short treatise on the creed of the People of the Sunna and the Community, written by Abu Ja'far al-Tahawi. In it he states that it is the creed of the jurists of the community, Abu Hanifa, Abu Yusuf and Muhammad ibn al-Hasan. ¹

In the accepted edition it has about 134 numbered articles, on pages 7 to 32. It begins with an introduction that names the three jurists. Then come articles on the divine unity, the Qur'an, the vision of God, predestination, faith, the afterlife, the Companions and the caliphate. It ends with a statement on named sects, among them the anthropomorphists, the Mu'tazila, the Jahmiyya, the Jabriyya and the Qadariyya. ¹