Shu'ab al-Iman (al-Bayhaqi) 66
✧ The increase and decrease of faith, and believers’ differing degrees of faith
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أَخْبَرَنَا أَبُو سَعِيدِ بْنُ أَبِي عَمْرٍو، حدثنا أَبُو الْعَبَّاسِ، أَخْبَرَنَا الرَّبِيعُ
قَالَ: قَالَ الشَّافِعِيُّ رَحِمَهُ اللهُ تَعَالَى فِي مَسْأَلَةٍ ذَكَرَهَا فِي كِتَابِ السِّيَرِ: " الصَّلَاةُ مِنَ الْإِيمَانِ "، وَقَالَ فِي التَّسْمِيَةِ عَلَى الذَّبِيحَةِ: " وَالصَّلَاةُ عَلَى النَّبِيِّ ﷺ، وَلَا أَكْرَهُ مَعَ التَّسْمِيَةِ عَلَى الذَّبِيحَةِ أَنْ يَقُولَ صَلَّى الله عَلَى رَسُولِهِ بَلْ أُحِبُّهُ لَهُ لِأَنَّ ذِكْرَ اللهِ وَالصَّلَاةَ عَلَى رَسُولِ اللهِ إِيمَانٌ بِاللهِ، وَعِبَادَةٌ لَهُ يُؤْجَرُ عَلَيْهَا إِنْ شَاءَ اللهُ تَعَالَى مَنْ قَالَهَا " وَرُوِّينَا عَنْ يُوسُفَ بْنِ عَبْدِ الْأَحَدِ، عَنِ الرَّبِيعِ بْنِ سُلَيْمَانَ قَالَ: سَمِعْتُ الشَّافِعِيَّ يَقُولُ: " الْإِيمَانُ قَوْلٌ وَعَمَلٌ يَزِيدُ وَيَنْقُصُ "
Translation
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machine translationAbū Saʿīd b. Abī ʿAmr informed us, Abū al-ʿAbbās narrated to us, al-Rabīʿ informed us.
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He said: Al-Shāfiʿī, may God Most High have mercy on him, said regarding a matter he mentioned in the Book of Campaigns (Kitāb al-Siyar): "Prayer is part of faith." And he said concerning the invocation of God's name over the slaughtered animal: "and the blessing upon the Prophet ﷺ. I do not dislike, along with the invocation of God's name over the slaughtered animal, that one say: May God bless His Messenger; rather I like it for him, because the remembrance of God and the blessing upon the Messenger of God is faith in God and an act of worship of Him, for which the one who says it is rewarded, God willing." And we have narrated from Yūsuf b. ʿAbd al-Aḥad, from al-Rabīʿ b. Sulaymān, who said: I heard al-Shāfiʿī say: "Faith is speech and action; it increases and decreases."
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