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Are Ahad narrations acted upon in matters of creed, and does one become a disbeliever by denying an attribute of Allah established by an Ahad narration?

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It is not permissible to declare a Muslim an infidel unless they commit clear apostasy, with the fulfillment of conditions and the absence of impediments. Interpreting an attribute of Allah in a linguistically permissible manner is not considered disbelief, and many scholars have done so without being declared infidels by the Ahl al-Sunnah. Debating in matters of religion has conditions and regulations, including that it must be done with kindness, with the debater's intention being to seek the truth and not out of fanaticism, and that it be fruitful and based on knowledge. If it is not so, then refraining is safer, "I guarantee a house in the outskirts of Paradise for whoever abandons argumentation even if he is in the right."

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