His Messenger, peace and blessings of God be upon him.
And who is more ignorant in ignorance, more foolish in intellect, worse in condition, and more astray in path than one who listens to these leaders of the ignorant without evidences or proofs, and rejects the truth that has been authenticated from the imams of the Muslims and their scholars with evidences and proofs from the Book and the Sunna.
So here we narrate from the imams of the Muslims and their scholars among the people of hadith, with chains of transmission and evidences that we transmit from their well-known books that are famous among the imams of the Muslims, the people of hadith, the reliable authors, the known, upright, and righteous ones (1).
So from where did they get this pedantry and philosophy to refute God, and
Notes
- (1) And this is the path that God Almighty and His Messenger, peace and blessings of God be upon him, commanded to be followed, and upon which the imams of the Sunna in every place have formed a consensus, as Ḥarb al-Kirmānī, may Allah have mercy on him, transmitted their consensus in his creed, saying: "Religion is only: the Book of God Almighty, and reports, Sunnas, and authentic narrations from reliable transmitters with authentic, strong, well-known, and famous reports, narrated by the first known reliable transmitter from the second known reliable transmitter, each confirming the other, until that reaches the Prophet, peace and blessings of God be upon him, or the Companions of the Prophet, or the Successors, or the successors of the Successors, or those after them among the known imams who are emulated, who hold fast to the Sunna and cling to the reports, who are not known for any innovation, nor criticized for lying, nor accused of opposition, and who are not partisans of analogy or opinion; because analogy in religion is invalid, and opinion is likewise, and even more invalid. The partisans of opinion and analogy in religion are ignorant, misguided innovators; unless there is a report regarding that from the Predecessors among the reliable imams, in which case taking the report is more appropriate." End quote. [Al-Sunna by Ḥarb (87)]
