293—Al-Hasan ibn Uthman informed us: Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn al-Hasan al-Sharqi informed us; Ja‘far ibn Muhammad narrated to us; al-Hasan ibn Ali al-Hulwani narrated to us; I heard Ishaq ibn Isa say:

“Malik ibn Anas said: ‘Whenever a man more skilled in disputation than another comes to us, are we to abandon what Gabriel brought down to Muhammad, peace and blessings be upon him, because of his disputation?’”