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not reject a single letter of them, or of any other transmitted reports coming from trustworthy narrators; nor should he dispute with anyone, debate him, or learn the arts of polemics. For engaging in discussion about qadar (the divine decree), the Beatific Vision, the Qur’an, and other matters of the Sunnah is disliked and forbidden; it is not
لَا يرد مِنْهَا حرفا وَاحِد وَغَيرهَا من الْأَحَادِيث المأثورات عَن الثِّقَات وَأَن لَا يُخَاصم أحدا وَلَا يناظره وَلَا يتَعَلَّم الْجِدَال فَإِن الْكَلَام فِي الْقدر والرؤية وَالْقُرْآن وَغَيرهَا من السّنَن مَكْرُوه ومنهي عَنهُ لَا يكون