nor does it prevent the veneration of one who opposed his command, even if he is forgiven. Rather, that forgiven opponent does not dislike opposing his command if the command of the Messenger (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) appears contrary to it. I said: How could they dislike that when they have instructed their followers, as mentioned before, and obligated them to abandon their statements that contradict the sunnah? In fact, al-Shāfiʿī (raḥimahu Allāh) instructed his companions to attribute the correct sunnah to him, even if he did not adopt it or took a contrary position. Therefore, when the scholar Ibn Daqīq al-ʿĪd (raḥimahu Allāh) compiled the issues in which the madhhab of each of the four imams contradicted the ḥadīth, whether individually or collectively, in a large volume, he said at the beginning: (Attributing these issues to the mujtahid imams is forbidden, and it is obligatory for the jurists who follow them to know these issues so that they do not attribute them to the imams and thereby lie about them). The followers abandoned some statements of their imams in adherence to the sunnah