and they advocate avoiding everyone who calls to innovation and devoting oneself to reciting the Quran, recording transmitted reports, and studying jurisprudence, while maintaining humility, submissiveness, and good character, doing good, refraining from harming others, avoiding backbiting, tale-bearing, and malicious informing, and taking care over what one eats and drinks. This, then, is a summary of what they enjoin, practise, and uphold.

He said: “We profess and adhere to everything we have mentioned of their beliefs. Our success comes only through Allah. He is sufficient for us; we seek His help, place our trust in Him, and to Him is the final return.”

He then said: “As for the followers of ‘Abd Allāh ibn Sa‘īd al-Qattān, who is Ibn Kullāb, they profess most of what we have related concerning Ahl al-Sunnah. They affirm that the Creator, Exalted is He, has always been living, knowing, powerful, hearing, seeing, mighty, magnificent, majestic, great, generous, possessed of will and speech, and bountiful.