A Refutation of Those Who Claim That Some Events of the Prophetic Biography Are Imagination Contrary to Reason

Question:
The Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, says: Some intellectuals say that the greatest thing reported in the biography is a kind of imagination, just as they said that the splitting of the chest is contrary to reason.

Answer:
Which sane person says it is contrary to reason? Sound reason does not contradict it; only diseased reason does, as Shaykh al-Islam Ibn Taymiyyah said: authentic transmission does not contradict clear reason. If they appear to differ, then either the transmission is not authentic, or the reason is not clear. What contradicts clear reason never contradicts authentic transmission; there must be a defect in one of them. Yes. It is also said of those who deny all miracles: they say these are not authentic, there are no miracles, and no supernatural events, like what Muhammad 'Abduh, the mufti of Egypt, and other scholars of thought who follow their own thinking and deny the texts said. Yes.