and al-Zuhrī about how those reports should be interpreted; the two of them answered, “amirruhā kamā jāʾat (let them pass exactly as they have come).”

[The statement of Imām Mālik, Sufyān al-Thawrī, al-Awzāʿī, and al-Layth ibn Saʿd]

Al-Walīd ibn Muslim also narrated: “I asked Mālik ibn Anas, Sufyān al-Thawrī, al-Layth ibn Saʿd, and al-Awzāʿī about the reports that have reached us concerning the divine attributes. They said, ‘amirruhā kamā jāʾat (pass them on as they have come).’ In another wording they said, ‘amirruhā kamā jāʾat bilā kayf (let them pass as they have come, without asking how).’