I am confused by Imam Ahmad’s statement describing the people of the Sunnah and the community: “They are not people of analogical reasoning or opinion…”

Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. He says: I am confused by a statement from Imam Ahmad (may Allah have mercy on him), where he described the people of the Sunnah and the community by saying, “They are not people of analogical reasoning or opinion,” because analogical reasoning in religion is invalid. So, what is the invalid analogical reasoning? What is the valid analogical reasoning? According to the scholars of jurisprudence, analogical reasoning is attaching a branch to a root with the same ruling due to a common cause.

Answer:
This is valid analogical reasoning. This is valid analogical reasoning. As for the invalid analogical reasoning, the first one to use invalid analogical reasoning was Iblis. . So he reasoned that his root was better than Adam’s root. And that is invalid analogical reasoning. So this is what is meant by invalid analogical reasoning, as opposed to valid analogical reasoning. Yes.