For those of you in the GTA (Greater Toronto Area), Shaikh Abū Hâtim Usâmah bin ‘Abdil-Latîf al-Qūsî is here! He will be in town to give some talks @ QSSC and at various other mosques in the GTA.

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Abul-Hasan al-Ash’arî (may Allah have mercy on him) said:[1]

This is a mention of the sum of the Companions of Hadîth’s and the People of the Sunnah’s statement.

The sum of what the People of Hadîth and the Sunnah are upon is:

Affirmation of Allah, His angels, His books and His messengers; [of] what came from Allah and what the reliable [narrators] narrated from Allah’s messenger (may Allah send salutations and peace upon him)—they do not reject anything from that; that Allah, glorified is He, is a single god, solitary, eternal. There is no god [worthy of worship] other than Him, He did not take a [female] companion, nor a child; and that Muhammad is His servant and messenger.

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