Kitab Al-Iman

Book of Faith

We have already mentioned, on the authority of al-ShaficI (may Allah be pleased
with him), the unanimous agreement on this view reported in his book al-Umm,
where he states that: "The Companions of the Prophet, those who came after
them, and our own contemporaries as well, have held unanimously that belief is
a saying, a work, and an intention, and none of these three may be separated
from any of the others." Moreover, Ibn Abl Hatim mentions in his Manaqib that he
once ...