the invention of these people and their attack on fabrication and guesswork if it is said that perhaps those who adhered to it held fast to it but it was lost and not transmitted to us we say how was the adherence to the apparent words transmitted to us and the dispute over the imamate transmitted to us from the ansar and the saying of their speaker i am its polished trunk and its welcome cluster and the motives for transmitting the text are more abundant and if it were permissible to open this door it would be permissible for every atheist if we argued against him with the quran and the creation was unable to oppose it and we demonstrated with it the truthfulness of muhammad may god bless him and grant him peace to say perhaps it was opposed but it was not it is transmitted and muslims are engaged in concealing it. if it is said that you are compelled to know this mutawatir report but you are stubborn in concealing it out of fanaticism we say why do you not denounce those who turn against you and say that you know the invalidity of what they transmit out of necessity but you are stubborn in inventing it? and how do you separate yourself from the bakriyyah and the rawdiyyah if they claim that in the text on abu bakr and alabbas may allah be pleased with them? if it is said do you not claim among the miracles of the messenger may allah bless him and grant him peace the splitting of the moon the speech of the wolf the moaning of the tree trunk and the multiplication of a small amount of food? and other things that were denied by all the infidels and groups of muslims and there was no disagreement with them.
اختراع هؤلاء وتهجمهم على الإختلاق والتخرص فإن قيل لعله تمسك به المتمسكون إلا أنه اندرس ولم ينقل إلينا قلنا كيف نقل إلينا التمسك بالألفاظ الظاهرة ونقل المنازعة في الإمامة من الأنصار وقول قائلهم أنا جذيلها المحكك وعذيقها المرجب والدواعي على نقل النص أوفر ولو جاز فتح هذا الباب لجاز لكل ملحد إذا احتججنا عليه بالقرآن وعجز الخلق عن معارضته وبينا به صدق محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم أن يقول لعله عورض ولكنه لم ينقل وتعاطي المسلمون إخفاءه فإن قيل أنتم مضطرون الى معرفة هذا الخبر المتواتر ولكنكم تعاندون في إخفائه تعصبا قلنا ولم تنكرون على من يقلب عليكم ويقول انتم تعرفون بطلان ما ينقلون ضرورة ولكنكم تعاندون في الإختراع وبم تنفصلون عن البكرية والروندية إذا ادعوا ذلك في النص على ابي بكر والعباس رضي الله عنهما فإن قيل ألستم تدعون في معجزات الرسول صلى الله عليه وسلم انشقاق القمر وكلام الذئب وحنين الجذع وتكثير الطعام القليل إلى غير ذلك مما أنكره كافة الكفار وطوائف من المسلمين ولم يكن خلافهم