al-Humaydī, Alī ibn al-Madīnī, Abd al-Salām ibn Sālih al-Harawī, al-Hasan ibn Alī al-Hulwānī, and others. How, then, can one justify diverting Allah’s words from their apparent meaning on the basis of something that appeared in Islam only through the person who introduced it, whom the imams of Islam consequently declared a disbeliever?