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مَكْتَبَةُ كَتِيبَةِ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ نُصَيْرٍ

The Raddadiyah Epistle - Yusuf ibn al-Ajuz al-Raddad al-Ḥalabi

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so [the one who deviated from the truth] 1 went to the teacher Mūsā ibn Ayyub from the village of [al-Jabib] 2 , and he is an Imam in the town after the teacher Jamie, may God make his return good, and he spoke against me [discourses] 3 of falsehood and said: This man, the people have inclined toward him, and we are older than him in this town, and he is a [stranger] 4 , poor man, for whom no [wealth] 5 is known, and we are for you in that land your support and your followers, and you are the successor of the teacher Jamie, and this strange man disdains you and insults you, and makes the enemies gloat over us in that place, and I had conveyed [concerning him] 6 [to Sheikh Mūsā] 7 when he altered and changed the commandments of his sheikh, Sheikh Jamie, [and my forbidding him from] 8 showing courtesy to him, accommodating him, and keeping close company with him 9 to whomsoever is not righteous, as a rebuke to him for the sake of violating his law.

Footnotes

1It does not exist in some manuscripts.
2In another manuscript: al-Jabab.
3In another manuscript: a discourse.
4It does not exist in some manuscripts.
5In another manuscript: destiny.
6In another manuscript: to him.
7It does not exist in some manuscripts.
8It does not exist in some manuscripts.
9In another manuscript: and blaming him.
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