He will find that the various factions of blind imitators have nevertheless turned away from those ḥadiths, imagining this to be an act of devotion to taqlīd and a show of zeal for men who are anything but infallible.

The eminent scholar Ibn al-Qayyim, in his book Iʿlām al-Muwaqqiʿīn, cited seventy-three clear and authentic Sunnah-reports that the muqallids rejected. He examined each one in detail, engaging their objections with calm, scholarly debate. Heading the list are examples dealing with creed, such as Allah’s exaltedness above His creation and His rising over the Throne.

To confirm this I add the following: In Shaykh al-Fulānī’s book Iqāẓ al-Himam, p. 99, it is reported that the meticulous scholar Ibn Daqīq al-ʿĪd compiled—in a large volume—the issues in which the school of each of the four imams, individually and collectively, conflicts with a sound ḥadith. At the beginning of that work he writes:

“Attributing these issues to the mujtahid imams is unlawful, and it is obligatory upon the jurists who follow them to know them, lest they ascribe them to the imams and thereby lie against them.”