has there ever been a saint of Allah who held a creed other than that of Ahmad ibn Hanbal?” He replied, “There never has been, nor will there ever be.”

Likewise, Shaykh Shihāb al-Dīn Abū Hafs ʿUmar ibn Muhammad al-Suhrawardī related this account. Shaykh ʿIzz al-Dīn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Ahmad ibn ʿUmar al-Fārūthī transmitted it to me from him, stating that he had heard this account from him. I also found it noted down in the handwriting of Shaykh