The Creed of Imam Al-Tahawi‏

This is book is written in the 9th century by Imam Al-Tahawi and translated with commentary by Hamza Yusuf. It is all about Aquida. It is small book with numbered paragraphs. The following is an excerpt:

#59 ...Knowledge is of two types: the humanly accesssible and the humanly inaccessible. To either deny accessible knowledge or to claim the inaccessible is disbelief. Faith is not sound unless accessible knowledge is embraced and the pursuit of the inaccessible is abandoned.

#71 We refer to the people who face our quilba as muslim be livers, as long as they acknowlege, confirm, and don't deny all that the Prophet(SAW) brought , stated, and imparted.

#74 We don't dissent from the majority of Muslims.

#75 We don't declare anyone among the people of our quliba a disbeliever for any sin, as long as he doesn't deem it lawful.

#76 Nor do we opine that where there is faith, a sin doesn't harm the sinner.

#82 Faith is one reality, and the people of faith are essentially the same. Any disparity among them results from distinctions in knowledge, piety, struggle, and adherence to priorities.

#88 We consider congregational prayer behind any of the people of quibla, both the virtuous and sinful, to be valid. We also pray over those among them who died.

#89 We don't specify anyone among them to be in either Paradise or the Fire. We also don't accuse any of them of disbelief, idolatry, or hypocrisy, as long as none of that manifests from them. We resign their inner states to God the Sublime and Exalted.

#91 We don't accept any rebellion against our leaders or the administrators of our public affairs, even if they are oppressive. We also don't pray for evil to befall any of them or withdraw our allegiance from them. We consider our civic duty to them concordant with our duty to God, the Sublime and Exalted, and legally binding on us, unless they command us to the immoral. We pray for their probity, success, and welfare.

#92 We adhere to the Sunnah and the majority (of scholars), and we avoid isolated opinions, discord, and sectarianism.

#94 In inconclusive matters of knowledge, we assert "God knows best."

#122 The pious scholars of the past and those after them who follow their path--the people of goodness and tradition' or understanding and profound scholarship--should be mentioned only in the best manner. Anyone who speaks ill of them has deviated from the path.