504 – And Allah—exalted is He—said: “But no, by your Lord, they will not believe until they make you the judge in all their disputes, then find within themselves no discomfort about what you have decided, and submit in full submission” (4:65).

505 – We were informed, through Sadaqah ibn Yasar, that ʿUmar ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz once inquired in Medina, and the unanimous conclusion was that a pregnancy cannot be visibly discerned in less than three months.

506 – Ash-Shāfiʿī said: Allah—exalted is He—has placed His Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, in His Book and in His religion in the very position that He Himself has clarified in His Book.

507 – It is therefore obligatory upon all created beings to know that the Prophet speaks about what Allah has revealed to him only on the basis of that revelation, that he never contradicts the Book of Allah, and that he has conveyed from Allah—majestic and exalted—the meaning Allah intended.

508 – The evidence for this is found in the Book of Allah—exalted is He.

509 – Allah the Most High says: “When Our clear revelations are recited to them, those who do not hope to meet Us say, ‘Bring a Qur’an other than this, or change it.’ Say, ‘It is not for me to change it of my own accord; I follow only what is revealed to me’” (10:15).

510 – And Allah—exalted is He—said to His Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him: “Follow what has been revealed to you from your Lord” (6:106).

511 – Statements of this sort appear in many other verses.

512 – And He said: “Whoever obeys the Messenger has indeed obeyed Allah” (4:80).

513 – And He said: “But no, by your Lord, they will not believe…”—the verse in full (4:65).

Ash-Shāfiʿī, may Allah have mercy on him, said:

514 – We were informed by ad-Dārāwadī, from ʿAmr ibn Abī ʿAmr, from al-Muṭṭalib