and the Rāfidah and the Murji’ah. Tell us, then, the position you maintain and the religious creed you profess.’ He is told: ‘The position we maintain and the religious creed we profess consist in adhering to the Book of Allah, Almighty and Majestic, the Sunnah of His Prophet—may Allah bless him and grant him peace—and what has been transmitted from the Companions, the Successors, and the imams of hadith. To this we hold fast, and to what was taught by