2- And Sufyān al-Thawrī said: The chain of transmission is the weapon of the believer; so if he does not have a weapon with him, with what will he fight? (1).

3- And according to the people of knowledge:

Whoever claims regarding a report narrated with a chain of transmission that it is a mistake and it is not permissible to act upon it, his statement is rejected against him; he is not to be believed except with clear proof, along with a chain of transmission more authentic than it, from a reliable narrator testifying that it is not authentic.

If he is unable to do that, then his statement is rejected against him, because it is a lie and falsehood, and what we have said is more authentic and more worthy of being believed.

Thus does God expose whoever stubbornly opposes the truth and follows falsehood through desire, opinion, and analogy.

God Almighty has said: {Say, "Produce your proof, if you should be truthful"} [al-Baqara: 111].

So it is established that whoever does not provide proof from the Book, or from the Sunna, or a consensus of the Companions for the correctness of a statement he made or an action he performed, then he is neither correct nor truthful in what he said or did; rather, he has fabricated a lie against God Almighty, and against