al-Dārimī (1), and Abū ʿAbd Allāh Ibn Baṭṭa (2), and Abū Ismāʿīl al-Anṣārī (3),
The praise of the scholars for his two books has already preceded in the introduction (p. 12), and that they are among the best of what has been authored in the chapters of the Sunna and the refutation of the Jahmiyya who divest [Allah of His attributes].
Among his most famous works is: al-Ibāna ʿan Sharīʿat al-Firqa al-Nājiya wa-Mujānabat al-Firaq al-Madhmūma, famously known as al-Ibāna al-Kubrā, a large work explaining the creed of the people of the Sunna, in which he followed the methodology of the people of narrations in seeking evidence from the Book, the Sunna, and the reports of the Predecessors (Salaf), while mentioning the chains of transmission for everything he cites. He also authored: al-Sharḥ wa-al-Ibāna ʿalā Uṣūl al-Sunna wa-al-Diyāna, famously known as al-Ibāna al-Ṣughrā, which is a beneficial, concise treatise on the creed of the people of the Sunna, and Allah has granted me success in editing and commenting on both of them. He also has the book Ibṭāl al-Ḥiyal, among others.
Ibn Rajab said in Dhayl Ṭabaqāt al-Ḥanābila (1/118): "He has subtle speech regarding Sufism and spiritual wayfaring, and a group [of scholars] took care to explain his book Manāzil al-Sāʾirīn. He frequently alludes to the station of annihilation (fanāʾ) in the Monotheism (Tawhid) of Lordship, and the fading away of everything other than Allah Almighty in witnessing, not in
