The one who refutes the people of innovation is a mujāhid, to the extent that Yahyā ibn Yahyā used to say: “Defending the Sunnah is better than jihād.”

We seek refuge with Allāh from adopting a Maḏhab (position or doctrine), then seeking to validate its basis or search for its evidence.

I said to Abū ʿAbdillāh [Al-Imām Aḥmad]: ‘Whoever dies upon Islām and the Sunnah, has he died upon good?’ He said to me: ‘Be quiet! Whoever dies upon Islām and the Sunnah has died upon all good.’