who came after him laid down Sunnahs; adhering to them affirms the Book of Allah, completes obedience to Allah, and fortifies the religion of Allah. No one among Allah’s creation has the right to alter them or even to consider anything that contradicts them. Whoever is guided by them is rightly guided; whoever seeks aid through them is granted victory; but whoever opposes them and follows a path other than that of the believers, Allah will leave him to what he has chosen and cast him into Hell—what an evil destination.

[The statement of Rabiʿah ibn Abi ʿAbd al-Rahman regarding istiwaʾ]

Al-Khallal narrated, with a chain whose every transmitter is a reliable Imam, from Sufyan ibn—