knows what His servants will do and what their ultimate fate will be, what has been and what will be, and how that which will not occur would occur if it did. We also hold it part of our religion to obey the leaders and offer sincere counsel to Muslims. We hold that one should part company with anyone who advocates an innovation and avoid adherents of deviant beliefs.

He said, “We shall present arguments supporting the positions we have stated, as well as those remaining positions we have not mentioned, chapter by chapter and point by point.” He then presented proofs and arguments for these positions, some of which may be cited, Allah Most High willing, when discussing the evidence mentioned by al-Rāzī.

Abū Saʿīd ʿUthmān ibn Saʿīd al-Dārimī said in his book entitled “ʿUthmān ibn Saʿīd’s Refutation of the Obstinate Jahmī al-Marīsī