"And this is the way of the people of knowledge, the people of ḥadīth, and the people of the Sunnah — they follow the truth wherever it leads, and they take their religion from Allāh's Book and the Sunnah of His Messenger ﷺ and what the Salaf al-Ṣāliḥ were upon."— A principle affirmed by the scholars of Ahl al-Sunnah across every generation