interpretations (1); among those who penned such rebuttals were al-Qadi Abu Yaʿla (2) and Shaykh Muwaffaq al-Din Ibn Qudama (3). This is the very type of taʾwīl concerning which more than one scholar has reported (4) the unanimous stance of the salaf that it must not be adopted—a point whose exact wording will be cited shortly, Allah willing.