Al-Sawad al-A'zam
Al-Radd 'ala Ashab al-Hawa (Arabic: الرد على أصحاب الهوى, Refutation of Those Holding Heretical Views), better known as al-Sawad al-A'zam 'ala Madhhab al-Imam al-A'zam Abi Hanifa (Arabic: السواد الأعظم على مذهب الإمام الأعظم أبى حنيفة, The Vast Majority of People Who Follow the Teaching of the greatest Imam Abu Hanifa), is a book written by al-Hakim al-Samarqandi, and is considered as the oldest theological work in accordance with the Maturidite school, after Kitab ash-Shirk (The Book of Polytheism) by Abu Mansur al-Maturidi. == Contents == In it al-Hakim al-Samarqandi has developed sixty-two credal statements, and states that the failure to observe them means that one cannot be regarded among the majority of Muslims (al-Sawad al-A'zam), an idea which he based on the Hadith containing al-Sawad al-A'zam (the great majority).