- Ibn Taimiyyah noted in his treatise on the Amal of Ahl al-Madinah that, “During the time of the three excellent generations, there was no evident innovation in Madinah at all and no innovation issued from it at all regarding the basic premises of the deen, such as emerged from all the other cities.
Ibn Taymiyyah, The Madinan Way: The Soundness of the Basic Premises of the School of the People of Madina, BookWork, 2000, p.8.
