the two prayers except at Arafah and Muzdalifah; they do not regard performing the dawn prayer while it is still dark as recommended, nor do they regard reciting behind the imam in a prayer recited silently as recommended. They do not require anyone who knows that the following day falls in Ramadan to form the intention to fast during the preceding night (1). They do not permit an undivided share of jointly owned property to be made into an endowment, given as a gift, or pledged as security. They forbid eating the spiny-tailed lizard, the hyena, and other creatures that Allah and His Messenger have made lawful (2), while declaring lawful the intoxicating drink (3) that Allah and His Messenger have forbidden. * They do not hold that the time for the afternoon prayer begins when the shadow of every object becomes twice its length (4). They say that the dawn prayer becomes invalid at sunrise; they do not permit drawing lots; they do not accept the hadith concerning an animal whose milk was deliberately left to accumulate in its udder, nor the hadith concerning a buyer who becomes insolvent. They also maintain that Friday prayer and other prayers are deemed to have been caught by less than one rakʿah. They do not permit prayers to be shortened for a journey (5) of one or two days, yet they permit [some] prayers (6) to be delayed beyond their appointed times * (7).

Likewise, if, among the followers of the hadith jurists (8), one were to say (9), “It is we who follow more faithfully; we follow only authentic hadith (10), whereas you rely on weak hadith,” the others could reply to him, “We know authentic hadith better [than you] (11) and follow it more closely [than you] (12)