Al-Aqeedah Al-Waasittiyah

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al-Aqeedah al-Waasittiyah, was one of Ibn Taymiyyah's more famous books written in response to a request from one judge from Wasith. He asked Ibn Taymiyyah to write his views about theology in Islam. This book contains several chapters. In the first chapter Ibn Taymiyyah defines one group that's called al-Firq an-Najiyah (the group of survival). He quoted one Hadith in which Muhammad promised that there will be one group of his followers to stay on the truth until the day of resurrection. This chapter also contains the definition of jamaah and states that only one of the seventy three Muslim sects will enter Jannah.

Chapter two contains the view of Ahl as-Sunnah wal-Jamm'ah regarding the attributes of Allah based on the Qur'an and Sunnah without ta'teel (rejection), tamtsil (anthropomorphism), tahreef (changing Allah's attributes), and takyif (questioning Allah's attributes). This book also contains the Six articles of belief for Muslims.