IT’s supporters

There is abundant praise on Ibn Taymiyyah. One of the best early writings on the man is the work entitled al-Radd al-Wafir ‘ala man za’ama anna man samma Ibn Taymiyyah Shakh al-Islam kafir, by Ibn Nasir al-Din al-Dimashqi (d.842). It contains a refutation of the extremist claim of a contemporary of the author, which states that whosoever calls Ibn Taymiyyah a Shaykh al-Islam is a Kafir (unbeliever). The author felt therefor the need to mention all those famous scholars of Ibn Taymiyyah’s age until his days who declared him a Shaykh al-Islam particularly and reached the incredible number of 87 major scholars. In the end, he said he could mention many more but desired not to lenghten the point.

What follows are all the names of scholars who called Ibn Taymiyyah a Shaykh al-Islam:

Ibn Sayyid al-Nâs
Ibn Abd al-Dâ’im
Ibn ‘Abd al-Hadi
al-Dhahabi
Ibn al-Wâfi al-Mu’adhin
Ibn al-Muhandis
Ibn al-Imam Sakhrat al-Baysani
Ibn Bardas
Ibn al-Naqib al-Qirmani
Ibn al-Munsafi al-Hariri
Ibn Râfi’
Ibn Nujayh
Ibn al-Sayrafi
Ibn Tulûbûghâ
Ibn al-Muhibb al-Sâmit
al-Subki
Ibn Jaysh al-Raqqi
Ibn al-Hariri
Ibn Shukr
Ibn al-Yunaniyyah al-Ba’albaki
Ibn Hamza al-Husayni
al-Zamlakani
Ibn Daqiq al-’Id
Ibn al-Munajjah
al-Yununi
Ibn Sind
Ibn Sa’d
Abu Hayyan al-Andalusi
Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyyah
al-Himyari
al-Biqa’i
Ibn Shaykh al-Hazamiyyin
al-Husbani
Ibn Hijji
Ibn Qâdi al-Jabal
Ibn Tarkhan
Ibn Rajab, al wâlid
Ibn Karâmah
Ibn Bakkâr al-Nablusi
Ibn Fadl Allah al-’Umari
Ibn ibn al-Qayyim
Ibn al-Muhibb al-Sa’di
Ibn al-Qalanisi
al-Fazari
Ibn Jamâ’ah
Ibn Yunus al-Ba’albakki
Ibn al-Mâ’i al-Turki
Ibn Bardas, al-wâlid
Ibn Kathir
Ibn Habib (al-hafidh)
Ibn Shaykh al-Salâmiyyah
Khâlid al-Mujâwar
al-’Alâ’i, Ibn Kaykaldi
al-Duhli
al-Qabuni
al-Yâsûfi
Ibn al-Muhibb
al-Jazari
al-Iskandari
Ibn Tûlûbughâ al-Sayfi
al-Fakhr al-Ba’albakki
Ibn Rajab
al-’Iraqi
Abd al-Mu’min b. Abd al-Haqq al-Baghdadi

These are 64 scholars. The rest with a short notice of each will follow another day, Insha’Allah.