If, however, you respond, “Our position is that whenever the transmitted evidence contradicts reason, reason must be preferred,” we say to you: the very same question comes back unchanged, and the challenge remains—within which category, exactly, has the transmitted evidence ever conflicted with sound reason?

I have limited myself to this single example and found no need to darken more pages with further cases of misreadings and omissions.

Second edition: Edited by Dr. Aḥmad ʿAṭiyyah al-Ghāmidī and Dr. ʿAlī ibn Nāṣir al-Faqīhī, it was printed by the Islamic University of Madinah, College of Daʿwah and Fundamentals of Religion, in its first printing, 1406 AH, under the title Al-Ṣawāʿiq al-Munazzalah ʿalā al-Ṭāʾifah al-Jahmiyyah wa-al-Muʿaṭṭilah. In their introduction the two editors state that the work comprises three volumes, yet I have been able to locate only the first and second volumes.