Sharh Fath al-Majid lil-Ghunayman
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Sharh Fath al-Majid (Arabic: شرح فتح المجيد) is an extensive commentary delivered by the Saudi scholar Abd Allah ibn Muhammad al-Ghunayman on Fath al-Majid, a classical creedal text by Abd al-Rahman ibn Hasan Al al-Shaykh (d. 1285 AH) .
Background and Medium
The base text, Fath al-Majid, was authored by Abd al-Rahman ibn Hasan as a refined, condensed, and completed version of Taysir al-Aziz al-Hamid, the earlier commentary by Sulayman ibn Abd Allah on Kitab al-Tawhid by Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab .
Al-Ghunayman taught the work across regular instructional circles, which were recorded as an audio lecture series comprising 106 cassette tapes . These recorded lectures were subsequently transcribed into digital text and disseminated through scholarly repositories and Islamic educational websites, including Islamweb and Islamway .
Content and Method
The commentary systematically follows the thematic chapters of Fath al-Majid, elucidating the foundational doctrines of Islamic monotheism (tawhid) and their scriptural justifications from the Quran and the Prophetic Sunnah . In expounding the theological framework, al-Ghunayman addresses:
- The classification of monotheism into tawhid al-ma'rifah wa-l-ithbat (the affirmation of divine existence, names, and attributes) and tawhid al-talab wa-l-qasd (the exclusivity of worship directed to God alone) .
- The virtue and requirement of actualizing tawhid, including its role in the expiation of sins and securing salvation in the afterlife .
- Detailed refutations and warnings against practices that compromise monotheism, distinguishing between major polytheism (al-shirk al-akbar) and minor polytheism (al-shirk al-asghar), as well as practices leading to them .
The explanation integrates classical quotations cited in the original treatise—most notably from Ibn Taymiyyah and Ibn al-Qayyim—while elaborating upon linguistic terms, legal maxims, and the theological points derived from the chapters .
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