‘Ād, who were among the greatest of the children of Adam:

“We had certainly established them more firmly than We have established you, and We endowed them with hearing, sight, and hearts. Yet their hearing, sight, and hearts availed them nothing, since they denied Allah’s signs, and they were overwhelmed by the very thing they used to ridicule. {26}”
[Al-Ahqāf 26]

This specious argument, though expressed in various ways, is what the imams identified as the foundation of the teachings of the Jahmiyyah. Imām Ahmad stated:

“Likewise, Jahm and his followers called people to the ambiguous passages of the Quran and hadith. Thus they went astray and, through their words, led a great many people astray. Among the reports that reached us concerning Jahm, the enemy of Allah, was that he was from Khurāsān, from Tirmidh,