He said, “The maḏhab of the salaf—[such as] Mālik, al-Awzāʻī, ath-Thawrī, al-Layth ibn Saʻd, ash-Shafiʻī, ʼAḥmad, ʼIsḥāq ibn Rāhawayh, and other than them from the past and present ʼaʼimmah of the Muslims—is to pass them on as they came without takyīf, tashbīh, and taʻṭīl.”