al-Mārānī, which he entitled Clearing the Imams of the Sharia of Odious Labels.

In it he cited numerous statements by the early Muslims and the imams on this subject, which I cannot recall at present. Abū al-Shaykh al-Asbahānī said in his book The Sunnah: “Ismāʿīl ibn Zurārah related: ‘I heard Abū Zurʿah