فَإِنِ ادَّعَى قَوْلَ أَحَدٍ مِنْ عُلَمَاءِ السَّلَفِ ، بِمَا زَعَمَ مِنْ إِدْخَالِ الشَّرِيطَةِ فِي تَثْبِيتِ الْخَبَرِ طُولِبَ بِهِ ، وَلَنْ يَجِدَ هُوَ وَلَا غَيْرُهُ إِلَى إِيجَادِهِ سَبِيلًا ، وَإِنْ هُوَ ادَّعَى فِيمَا زَعَمَ دَلِيلًا يَحْتَجُّ بِهِ ، قِيلَ لَهُ : وَمَا ذَاكَ الدَّلِيلُ ؟
If he claims the statement of any of the scholars of the Salaf regarding what he alleges of introducing the condition in affirming the report, he will be asked for it, and neither he nor anyone else will find any way to produce it. And if he claims, in what he alleges, a proof by which he argues, it will be said to him: And what is that proof?