Explaining the negative consequences resulting from this distinction, such as their separation of beliefs from rulings and their claim that beliefs are not accepted except from mass-transmitted reports, unlike rulings
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The Shaykh : Especially since these later generations who agreed upon this distinction between ahad reports and mass-transmitted reports built a legal ruling upon it, stating that an ahad report, even if it is authentic, if it contains a belief, is not accepted based on that report, even if it is authentic, unless it reaches the level of mass transmission.
This classification, upon which this ruling was based—namely, the distinction between beliefs, where ahad reports are not accepted, and rulings, where ahad reports are accepted—this classification, when studying the Salaf, studying what the Companions were upon and what their followers after them were upon, one is certain that such a classification is foreign to Islam and is a philosophy from which Islam disavows itself...
This classification, upon which this ruling was based—namely, the distinction between beliefs, where ahad reports are not accepted, and rulings, where ahad reports are accepted—this classification, when studying the Salaf, studying what the Companions were upon and what their followers after them were upon, one is certain that such a classification is foreign to Islam and is a philosophy from which Islam disavows itself...