Evidence for the Unsoundness of the Allegorists’ Method
It is enough to expose the weakness of their claim that none of them follows a stable rule as to what the intellect supposedly renders impossible. One of them will say that reason allows—or even obliges—what another insists reason declares impossible.
So I marvel: by which intellect do they weigh the Book and the Sunnah? May Allah be pleased with Imām Mālik ibn Anas, who said, “Every time a man more adept in argumentation than the last comes along, shall we abandon what Gabriel brought to Muhammad ﷺ for the sake of their disputation?”
Refutation of the Allegorists
Each of these people is undone by the very objections levelled by his fellow. This refutation rests on three points:

1. showing that reason does not in fact deem these matters impossible;
2. establishing that the transmitted texts do not permit figurative reinterpretation;
3. demonstrating that most of these doctrines are known by necessity to have been conveyed by the Messenger ﷺ, just as it is known that he instituted the five daily prayers and the fast of a month—