in any of the supplications well known among them. Such things are transmitted only in weak or fabricated hadiths.

It should be understood here that, had there been any good in the practices mentioned above, the Companions would have preceded us in them and directed us to them. If they constituted sound guidance, then the Companions must have missed that guidance—something no rational person would claim. But if what the Companions followed was guidance and truth, then what lies beyond the truth except error?