A Critical Examination of Ibn Taymiyyah's Narrative Reasons for the Lack of Absolute Infallibility of the Prophets and the Holy Prophet

Ibn Taymiyyah (661-728 A.H.), severely criticizing various denominations, does not accept the absolute infallibility of the prophets and, like Hashwiyah and some scholars of hadith, considers infallibility depending on receiving and preserving revelation. However, in other cases, he does not believe in the infallibility of the prophets before and after the Bi'tha and does not consider any difference between the Holy Prophet (Muhammad) and other prophets. He believes that what God has informed in his book and what has come from the Prophet is the repentance of the Prophets (pbuh) for the sins they have repented of. With this repentance, God raises their ranks and the infallibility of the prophets is that they confess their sins and mistakes. Regarding this claim, he refers to verses from the Qur'an about Adam, Noah, Abraham, Jonah, Josef, David, Solomon and the Holy Prophet, and argues that these prophets, according to the mentioned verses, have not been absolutely infallible. This article, via descriptive and analytical methods, while dealing with Ibn Taymiyyah's Quranic arguments and their critique and evaluation, tries to prove the absolute infallibility of the prophets, especially the Holy Prophet, by correct interpretation of the verses and removing the ambiguities and problems and witnessing the Qur'anic examples