—among the Companions at all that the mutashābih refers to the verses on the divine attributes. On the contrary, the reports from them point to the very opposite. How, then, could the verses dealing with the attributes be mutashābih (1) in their view when they never disagreed about any of them, while the verses of legal rulings are deemed muḥkam even though they did differ over some of those? This is merely the claim of certain later scholars, and a full discussion of the matter will follow in the chapter devoted to it, Allah willing.