“Our statement, which we uphold, and our ʿAqīdah, which we adhere to, is holding fast to the speech of our Lord (عز وجل) and the Sunnah of our Prophet (ﷺ), and what has been narrated from the Ṣaḥābah, the Tābiʿūn, and the People of Ḥadīth. And we are firmly adhering to that.”

“And we say what Abū ʿAbd Allāh ʾAḥmad ibn Ḥanbal (نضّر الله وجهه) used to say. And we oppose what contradicts his statement, for he is the virtuous ʾImām, the complete leader, through whom Allāh manifested the truth, repelled misguidance, clarified the path, suppressed the innovations of the innovators, the deviations of the deviants, and the doubts of the skeptics.”

“So may the mercy of Allāh be upon him—a foremost ʾImām, a venerated figure, a great and esteemed scholar—and upon all the aʾimmah of the Muslims.”