by Nisaar Y. Nadiadwala on Monday, March 12, 2012 at 12:00pm
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How many books did Ibn Taymiya write ? Scholars say that if you count the number of pages that Ibn Taymiya has written and divide them in the number of days from his age of puberty the average comes to around... 18 pages a day. ( I take around one hour to write one short note! on face book !! How many hours a day Ibn Taymiyaa gave to writing ?).He lived for around 63 years . So that comes to around 6570 pages a year and altogether 3,28,00 pages in his life time. This was not done in free time or spare time..Inspite of huge amount of writing.. Ibn Taymiya r.a. fought in war agaisnt the Mongols, he was jailed too. Once while in jail. he heard a christian commenting negatively about the Qur'an. So he immediately started writing a book on distortion of the teaching of Jesus a.s. amd completed the book in one go.
Once he was passing by and realised that people's creed were getitng corrupted by deviated sects. So he sat down and wrote the book, a master piece on Touhid.. Shah'ral aqqedatul wasitiyaa..The explaination of aqeedah of the middle course..The book was written in one sitting only.
Imam Nauwi died at a very young age..But my Friend Shaikh abdul Basit Khan from Madina Univrersity tells me that the number of books he has written are so much that it will take my whole age to read all of his work.
Before he wrote Sahih al Bukhari..Imam Bukahri wrote Tarrekhul Kabeer.. the Biography of the narrators of Hadith. compilations and selection of Bukhari took 18 years !! Besides sahih Bukhari, Imam Bukhari wrote no less than 18 other books.
Imam Tabari has two famous books to his credit..Tafseer of Tabari with 12 volumes and History of Tabari...guess !!! 34 volumes.
Ibn Kathir has written many books including Tafseer and History. the Tafseer published in English is of 10 volumes and each volume has around 500 pages ! "al Bidaya wan Nihaya" consists of around 12 volumes in Arabic.
Ibn Hjar 's Fat'hul Baari has 15 volumes and has written no less than 15 more volumnous books with an excellent seerah of sahabah. Al isaaba fi tameezi Sahaba.. 8 huge volumes !!!
Ibn ani Barq is a famous scholar of Maliki fiqh.he was from Spain and he is respected as the best islamic scholar of the West. His commentary on Muatta Imam Malik runs upto 30 volumes.
Tahzibul Kamal fi smael rijal by Hafiz al Mizzi is an exncyclopedia of the narrators of hadith. How many volumes.. 35 Volumes !
So do you still want to be a writer ? Why not ? But how many pages are you willing to write every day? Well as far as your brother Nisaar is concerned he has written only 350 pages..Now compare it with these huge giants of Islamic literature and you will discover how dwarf I am !!!!
AUTHOR : Nisaar Nadiadwala speaksand writes on Islam and Muslims. He can be reached at nisaar_yusuf@yahoo.com
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How many books did Ibn Taymiya write ? Scholars say that if you count the number of pages that Ibn Taymiya has written and divide them in the number of days from his age of puberty the average comes to around... 18 pages a day. ( I take around one hour to write one short note! on face book !! How many hours a day Ibn Taymiyaa gave to writing ?).He lived for around 63 years . So that comes to around 6570 pages a year and altogether 3,28,00 pages in his life time. This was not done in free time or spare time..Inspite of huge amount of writing.. Ibn Taymiya r.a. fought in war agaisnt the Mongols, he was jailed too. Once while in jail. he heard a christian commenting negatively about the Qur'an. So he immediately started writing a book on distortion of the teaching of Jesus a.s. amd completed the book in one go.
Once he was passing by and realised that people's creed were getitng corrupted by deviated sects. So he sat down and wrote the book, a master piece on Touhid.. Shah'ral aqqedatul wasitiyaa..The explaination of aqeedah of the middle course..The book was written in one sitting only.
Imam Nauwi died at a very young age..But my Friend Shaikh abdul Basit Khan from Madina Univrersity tells me that the number of books he has written are so much that it will take my whole age to read all of his work.
Before he wrote Sahih al Bukhari..Imam Bukahri wrote Tarrekhul Kabeer.. the Biography of the narrators of Hadith. compilations and selection of Bukhari took 18 years !! Besides sahih Bukhari, Imam Bukhari wrote no less than 18 other books.
Imam Tabari has two famous books to his credit..Tafseer of Tabari with 12 volumes and History of Tabari...guess !!! 34 volumes.
Ibn Kathir has written many books including Tafseer and History. the Tafseer published in English is of 10 volumes and each volume has around 500 pages ! "al Bidaya wan Nihaya" consists of around 12 volumes in Arabic.
Ibn Hjar 's Fat'hul Baari has 15 volumes and has written no less than 15 more volumnous books with an excellent seerah of sahabah. Al isaaba fi tameezi Sahaba.. 8 huge volumes !!!
Ibn ani Barq is a famous scholar of Maliki fiqh.he was from Spain and he is respected as the best islamic scholar of the West. His commentary on Muatta Imam Malik runs upto 30 volumes.
Tahzibul Kamal fi smael rijal by Hafiz al Mizzi is an exncyclopedia of the narrators of hadith. How many volumes.. 35 Volumes !
So do you still want to be a writer ? Why not ? But how many pages are you willing to write every day? Well as far as your brother Nisaar is concerned he has written only 350 pages..Now compare it with these huge giants of Islamic literature and you will discover how dwarf I am !!!!
AUTHOR : Nisaar Nadiadwala speaksand writes on Islam and Muslims. He can be reached at nisaar_yusuf@yahoo.com
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