Religion reformers, in order to demolish the four madhhabs and thus to demolish Ahl as-Sunna, whereby to demolish Islam, dwell very much upon the talfîq (unification) of the madhhabs, that is, gathering the facilities and discarding the rest. In all their books, they put forward — it can be seen from the examples which they give of the scholars of Ahl as-Sunna — that the ijtihâds of the three îmâms in the Hanafî madhhab have been unified or the ijtihâds of different madhhabs have been unified when there was difficulty. We, too, say that both the cases are permissible. As explained in detail in the preceding article, the ijtihâds of imâms belonging to a madhhab mean the ijtihâd of the imâm who founded that madhhab. To unify them does not mean to go out of the imâm al-madhhab’s ijtihâd. Religion reformers, in a clever way with their own logic, write the things that are permissible and, by putting them forward, want to have their own corrupt and destructive thoughts be accepted as faith and ’ibâdât.

He was the son of a Christian named Fîrûz. He was emancipated by imâm ’Alî Ridâ and became the master of Sırrî as-Saqatî, who became the master of al-Junaid al-Baghdâdî. He passed away in Baghdâd in 200 / 815.