Abstract:
Believing in God's direction is one of the issues that is discussed in the theology. Some Salafi scholars with a lexical inference from some religious texts are trying to prove that God has a certain place and he is in the sky, citing the "Female Slave Hadith". The main issue for the author of this essay is how the Salafi scholars argued for the presence of God in the sky according to the above Hadith; Therefore, the author is going to consider to the views of four main Salafi scholars: Ibn Taymiyyah, ibn Baz, Albani, ibn Othaimin. In a library method, we have searched the phrase "in the sky" in their books, examining their analysis. The finding is that we must not focus too much on verbal meaning. The meanings might be metaphorical. Besides, there are so many Hadiths from the Holy prophet (PBH) and verses in the Holy Quran that contradict with the "Female Slave Hadith".
Machine summary:
The main issue for the author of this article is how the reasoning of the Salafi scholars for God being in the heaven, based on Hadith al-Jariyah, has been; therefore, the views of four influential scholars in this movement (Ibn Taymiyyah, Bin Baz, Al-Albani, and Ibn Uthaymeen) have been collected using the library method by searching for the phrase "fi al-sama" in all their books, and then their reasoning methods have been analyzed and criticized; after that, to prove the error of the literalists in rejecting metaphor (majaz) and interpretation (ta'wil), verses from the Holy Quran and narrations from the Prophet have been presented that contradict Hadith al-Jariyah.
In this article, the views of four influential scholars in the movement claiming Salafism (Ibn Taymiyyah, Bin Baz, Al-Albani, and Ibn Uthaymeen) have been separately examined and analyzed; then, their opinions are criticized by citing verses from the Quran and narrations from the Prophet that contradict Hadith al-Jariyah; after that, in a separate section, the views of some Sunni scholars are presented under the title "A Correct Interpretation of Hadith al-Jariyah".
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