Muntakhab al-tawarikh 1.6

1.6

"And all that we relate to thee of the tidings of the prophets with which we have established your hearts" tells us of this, and a large body of the learned expositors of the traditions and commentators on the Quran, as for example Imam Bukhari and Qazi Baizawi up to our own times have occupied themselves in writing about this heart-enthralling science, and their words and practice have become an authority for the nations both East and West, in spite of the diversity of their origins and the distinction of their various degrees. While on the other hand an insignificant band of innovators and inventors who with the disgraceful partisanship of greedy mindedness and importunate desires, and shortsightedness as regards both outward and inward qualities, have placed their feet in the valley of audacity, and have introduced interpolations and errors into true and memorable histories, and having abandoned recognised constructions and explanations, and interpretations of obvious nature, and estimating the conflicts and discussions of the noble companions and mighty followers (of the Prophet) by their own condition, attributed them to mutual contradiction and hatred, and to rivalry in the splendour and amount of their property and family, and having seduced simple-minded people of elementary belief, have led them, by their own error and by attributing error to others, to Gehenna, the house of perdition: