All praise is due to Allah, and Allah's Peace and Blessings be upon His Final Messenger, his pure family, his noble Companions, and all those who follow them with righteousness until the Day of Judgment.

The importance of this treatise, like the importance of the one before it 1 is that it belongs to an honorable Imam, the revered Imam, the scholar, the teacher, the Reviver of the Sunnah, the Subduer of Innovation, Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Hanbal, may Allaah be pleased with him. And this is a summarization of his belief, may Allaah have mercy upon him, drawn from the Qur’aan and the Sunnah and from that which the scholars of the Salaf and the Ahlul- Hadeeth (People of Hadeeth) were upon and which they adopted and divulged and made the people hold as their belief.

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