Indeed, the claim is also false that the assertions of the Jahmiyyah, who deny Allah’s being above His creation, are known through plain reason, whether they agree with the Messenger’s reports or contradict them.

This is evident in several respects:

First:
The believers who knew him to be truthful came to believe in him without these propositions.

Second:
None of them raised this objection or found problematic what these people imagine to be a contradiction.

Third:
None of the hypocrites raised this objection.

Fourth:
None of the polytheists raised this objection.

Fifth:
None of the People of the Book raised this objection.

Sixth:
He did not instruct them to withhold belief in what these texts apparently convey or to refrain from accepting what they entail. Nor did he command them to refrain from reflecting upon, understanding, and comprehending them; to interpret them in a way that diverts them from their apparent, understood meaning; or to adopt tafwīd and say: “We do not know what they mean.”

Seventh:
The Companions did not instruct the Successors to do so.

Eighth:
The Successors did not raise this apparent contradiction and conflict with the Companions, nor did they raise it with one another. Nor did they ask one another: “What should we do? Should we follow what the texts entail, or what the opposing rational arguments entail,