because it is not knowledge, and because he contradicted the trustworthy ones who were certain and did not doubt. This is a very clear matter, not doubted by anyone who has been given knowledge and understanding. Consider, dear brother, if a group agreed to establish a right for one person over another, and they agreed that this right amounted, for example, to five, except that one of them doubted and said: five or six. Would any rational person say that the right is not established on the grounds that the doubter is more trustworthy than those who did not doubt?! Therefore, in conclusion, I say to this dear brother and to others like him: I sincerely hope that you do not occupy yourselves with writing in a field of knowledge in which you have not yet matured, and do not occupy us with responding to you when you write a reply to me, even by way of question and learning. For I am engaged in the great project "Bringing the Sunnah closer to the Ummah," which is often interrupted by responses published in letters, books, and magazines from some enemies of the Sunnah among the adherents of the madhhabs, the Ashʿarīs, the Sufis, and others. In this preoccupation, there is enough to keep me from responding to the emerging beloved ones, let alone others. Allāh is the One whose help is sought, and upon Him is reliance.

- "Whoever is afflicted by poverty and complains to people, his poverty will not be relieved. But whoever complains to Allāh, Allāh will soon grant him wealth, either through a quick death or quick wealth." It was narrated by al-Tirmidhī (2327), al-Ḥākim (1/408), and from him by al-Bayhaqī (4/196), al-Ṭabarī in "Tahdhīb al-Āthār" (1/13/12 and 13), al-Dūlābī in "al-Kuná" (1/96), Abū Yaʿlá in "Musnad" (3/1286), and al-Baghawī in "Sharḥ al-Sunnah" (14/301/4109) through various chains from Bashīr ibn Salmān from Sayyār (al-Baghawī added: Abū al-Ḥakam) from Ṭāriq ibn Shihāb from ʿAbd Allāh ibn Masʿūd as a marfūʿ ḥadīth. Al-Tirmidhī said: "A ḥadīth that is ḥasan ṣaḥīḥ gharīb." Al-Ḥākim said: