The people of Damascus, who held him in great honor, gave
him a splendid funeral and an estimated 200,000 men and 15,000 women attended
his funeral. He was buried at the Sufi cemetery in Damascus5 where his mother
was buried.
Ibn Taimiyah's Writings
In spite of all the turbulence in his life, as discussed
earlier, Ibn Taimiyah was able to write many books and pamphlets on all branches
of Islamic knowledge. His pupil; Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyah, compiled a list of the
works of Ibn Taimiyah which contains 350 works. Here are some of them:
A: Qur'anic Studies and Tafsir:
1. al-Tabyan fi nuzul al-Qur'an.
2. Tafsir surat al-Nur.
3. Tafsir al-Mu'awidhatain (chapter 113 and 114).
4. Tafsir Surat al-Ikhlas (chapter 112)
5. Muqaddimah fi 'Usul al-Tafsir.
B: Fiqh (Islamic Law):
1. Majmu'at al-Fatawa al-Kubra. 5 volumes.
2. Majmu' Fatawa Ibn Taimiyah. 37 volumes.
3. al-Qawa'id al-Nuraniyah al-Fiqhiyah.
4. Kitab Manasik al-Hajj.
5. Risalah fi al-'Uqud al-Muharramah.
6. Kitab al-Farq al-Mubin baina al-Talaq wal-Yamin.
7. Kitab fi 'Usul al-Fiqh.
8. Risalah fi Raf al-Hanafi Yadaihi fi al-Salah.
9. Risalah fi Sujud al-Sahwu.
10. Mas'alat al-Half bil-Talaq.
C: Tasawwuf (Sufism):
1. al-Furqan baina Awliya' al-Rahman wa-Awliya' al-
Shaitan.
2. Amrad al-Qulub wa-Shifa'uha.
3. al-Tuhfah al-'Iraqiyah fi A'mal al-Qulub.
4. al-'Ubudiyah.
5. al-Risalah al-Tadmuriyah.
6. Darajat al-Yaqin.
7. Bughyat al-Murtad (al-sab'iniyah).
8. Ibtal Wahdat al-Wujud.
9. al-Tawassul wal-Wasilah.
10. Risalah fi al-Sama' Wal-Raqs.
11. al-'Ibadat al-Shar'iyah.
D: 'Usul al-Din and 'Ilm al-Kalam:
1. Risalah fi 'Usul al-Din.
2. Risalah fi al-Ihtijaj bil-Qadar.
3. Jawab Ahl al-'Ilm wal-Iman.
4. al-Iklil fi al-Mutashabih wal-Ta'wil.
5. al-Risalah al-Madaniyah.
6. Minhaj al-Sunnah al-Nabawiyah fi Naqd Kalam al-Shi'ah
al-Qadariyah.
7. al-Muntaqa min Akhbar al-Mustafa.
8. Sharh al-'Aqidah al-Asfahaniyah.
9. Ma'arij al-Wusul ila Ma'rifat anna Usula al-Din
wa-Futu'ahu qadd bayyanaha al-Rasul.
10. Aqwamu ma qila fi al-Mashi'ati wal-Hikinati
wal-Qada'i wal-Qadari wal-Ta'lili wa-Butlani al-Jabri wal- Ta'til.
11. Risalah fi al-Qada'i wal-Qadar.
12. Kitab al-Iman.
13. al-Furqan baina al-Haqqi wal-Batil.
14. al-Wasiyah al-Kubra.
15. Naqd Ta'sis al-Taqdis.
16. al-Radd 'ala al-Nusairiyah.
E: Al-Radd 'ala As-hab al-Milal: (Responding to
other religion's followers):
1. al-Jawab al-Sahih li-man Baddala Dina al-Masih.
2. al-Radd 'ala al-Nasara.
3. Takhjil Ahl al-Injil.
4. al-Risalah al-Qubrusiyah.
5. Iqtida' al-Sirat al-Mustaqim Mukhalafat As-hab
al-Jahim.
F: Al-Mantiq wal-Falsafah: (Logic and
Philosophy):
1. al-Radd 'ala al-Mantiqiyyin.
2. al-Risalah al-Safadiyah.
3. Naqd al-Mantiq.
4. al-Risalah al-'Arshiyah.
G: Al-Akhlaq wal-Siyasah wal-Ijtima': (Manners,
Administration and Sociology)
1. al-Hasanah wal-Sayyi'ah.
2. al-Wasiyah al-Jami'ah li-Khair al-Dunia
wal-Akhirah.
3. Sharh Hadith "Innama al-A'malu
bin-Niyyat".
4. al-Siyasah al-Shar'iyah fi Islah al-Ra'i
wal-Ra'iyah.
5. al-Hisbah fi al-Islam.
6. al-Mazalim al-Mushtarakah.
7. al-Shatranj.
H: Hadith:
1. Ahadith al-Qussas
The Reason this Creed was Written
Ibn Taimiyah said:
"A Shafi'ite judge from Wasit (in Iraq) whose name
is Radiy ad-Din al-Wasiti, visited me on his way to Hajj (pilgrimage). This
Sheikh was a man of goodness and faith. He complained to me of the people's
situation in that country (i.e., Iraq ) under the Tatars (Mongols) rule of
ignorance, injustice, and loss of faith and knowledge.
He asked me to write him an 'Aqidah (creed) as a
reference to him and his family. But I declined saying: Many creeds have been
written. Refer to the scholars of the Sunnah. However, he persisted in his
request, saying: I do not want any creed but one you write. So I wrote this one
for him while I was sitting one afternoon.
Many copies of it are dispersed throughout Egypt, Iraq
and other provinces. (Majmu' Fatawa Ibn Taimiyah, VIII, p.164)
Notes
1-Ibn Batutah - Rihiah,
vol.1,p.110,fn.1.
2- See page 21 of this book.
3-Ibn Kathir, al-Bidayah wan-Nihayah, Vol.7, Part 14,
pp.91-92
4-Ibn Kathir, al-Bidayah wan-Nihayah, vol.7,
part 14, p.56.
5- For description of Ibn Taimiyah's
funeral see Ibn Kathir; pp.141-145.