al-Raiyya al-Sughra fi Dhamm al-Bida wa Madh al-Sunna al-Gharra
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About The Book
al-Raiyya al-Sughra is Imam Yusuf al-Nabhani's shorter poem rhyming in ra (the Arabic letter) — a tightly composed didactic ode in which he sets the practices and beliefs of traditional Sunni-Sufi Islam against the rising reformist (and specifically Wahhabi) challenges of the late Ottoman period. The ode names the contested practices — tawassul, istighatha, mawlid, tabarruk, ziyara of the graves of the salihin — and grounds each in the Quran, the canonical hadith, and the explicit positions of the four imams and the broader Sunni consensus. Composed in the high register of late-Ottoman Arabic poetry, the ode was widely circulated and committed to memory.
About The Author
Imam Yusuf b. Ismail al-Nabhani (1265-1350 AH / 1849-1932 CE) was a Palestinian Hanafi judge who served in the courts of Beirut under the late Ottoman empire. Born in Ijzim near Haifa to a family with deep scholarly and Sufi lineage, he received his classical training at al-Azhar in Cairo under masters including Shaykh Ibrahim al-Saqqa and Shaykh Yusuf al-Barqawi. He devoted his enormous literary energy to defending and propagating the traditional Sunni-Sufi heritage in an age of rising reformist challenge — composing more than eighty works in salawat, istighatha, manaqib, theological defense, and Prophetic praise.
عن الكتاب
"الرائيّة الصغرى في ذمّ البدعة ومدح السنّة الغرّاء" منظومةُ الإمام النبهاني الأصغر — قافيتها الراء — في ذمّ البدعة وذكر السنّة الغرّاء. يَضَع المؤلِّفُ فيها ممارسات أهل السنّة والتصوّف في مقابل التحدّيات الإصلاحية (وخاصّةً الوهابية) في أواخر العهد العثماني. تَذكر المنظومةُ الممارساتِ المُتَنَازَعَ عليها — التوسّل، والاستغاثة، والمولد، والتبرّك، وزيارة قبور الصالحين — وتُؤَصِّل كلَّ ممارسةٍ بالقرآن والصحيح من الحديث، وبأقوال الأئمّة الأربعة، وبإجماع أهل السنّة. صِيغَت بأسلوب الشعر العربي العثماني الراقي، وانتشرت وحُفِظت.
عن المؤلف
الإمام يوسف بن إسماعيل النبهاني (١٢٦٥-١٣٥٠ هـ) قاضٍ حنفيٌّ فلسطيني خَدَم في محاكم بيروت في العهد العثماني المتأخّر. وُلد بإجزِم قرب حيفا في أسرةٍ ذات سلسلة علميّة وصوفية، وتَلَقَّى علمَه الكلاسيكي بالأزهر على شيوخٍ منهم الشيخ إبراهيم السقّا والشيخ يوسف البرقاوي. كرَّس طاقته الأدبية الهائلة للدفاع عن تراث السنّة والتصوّف ولِنَشْره في عصر التحدّيات الإصلاحية، فألَّف ما يَزيد على ثمانين كتاباً في الصلوات والاستغاثة والمناقب والدفاع العقدي ومديح النبي ﷺ.
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Yusuf al-Nabhani: Yusuf al-Nabhani (1265-1350 AH / 1849-1932 CE) was a Palestinian scholar, Ottoman jurist, and one of the most prolific poets of devotion to the Prophet Muhammad in the modern era. Shafiʿi in law and Ashʿari in creed, he was born in the village of Ijzim near Haifa, where his father, an imam, gave him his first instruction. He went on to study at al-Azhar in Cairo, then entered the Ottoman judiciary, holding posts across the Ottoman lands and rising to head the rights court of Beirut, an office he held for over twenty years. He took authorization in several Sufi paths, among them the Qadiriyya and Shadhiliyya. Al-Nabhani is most celebrated for his devotional and hadith-related writing centered on the Prophet. His landmark works include Wasaʾil al-Wusul ila Shamaʾil al-Rasul on the Prophet's noble character and appearance, Jamiʿ Karamat al-Awliyaʾ on the saints and their miracles, Saʿadat al-Darayn on prayers upon the Prophet, and al-Anwar al-Muhammadiyya. He compiled vast collections of litanies and praise poetry, such as al-Majmuʿa al-Nabhaniyya fi al-Madaʾih al-Nabawiyya. Late in life he traveled to Madina, where he lived for a time, before returning to his homeland, dying in Ramadan 1350 AH. He is remembered as a steadfast defender of traditional Sunni piety, Sufism, and love of the Prophet against the reformist currents of his day.
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