And everyone who has heard (1) what the messengers brought knows, by sheer necessity, that these notions form no part of the mission with which Allah sent His Messenger. The Messenger never taught his community any such matters, nor were the Companions of the Messenger of Allah—may Allah bless him and grant him peace—upon them. How, then, could this supposed tawḥīd, claimed to be the very foundation of the religion, be something to which neither the Messenger nor the Companions and Successors ever summoned people? On the contrary, it is self-evident that the Book and the Sunnah brought by the Messenger stand in open conflict with the meaning that these Jahmiyyah have labeled tawḥīd.
For this reason the predecessors of the ummah and its leading scholars have always rejected it. Shaykh Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Sulamī relates in his work "Condemnation of Speculative Theology" (2): “I heard ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Jābir al-Sulamī say: I heard Muḥammad ibn ʿAqīl ibn al-Azhar, the jurist, say: A man came to al-Muzanī and asked him about some matter of speculative theology (kalām). Al-Muzanī replied, ‘I loathe this discipline; indeed, I forbid it just as al-Shāfiʿī forbade it. Moreover, (3) I heard al-Shāfiʿī say: Mālik was asked about engaging in speculative theology concerning tawḥīd. He (4) said…"