I say, and with God's success: We, the people of the Sunnah, adhere to what the predecessors were upon and take it as our guide. We differ from the people of desires among the misguided sects in that they interpret the Book and the Sunnah by themselves, leading them astray and causing others to go astray. The understanding of the predecessors from the Companions and the Followers is based on a single, established scientific method of transmission, which is the four jurisprudential schools. For example, the Hanafi school transmitted to us the jurisprudence of Ibn Mas'ud, Ali, and Umar, as well as the major Companions in Kufa, who numbered 1,500 Companions. Therefore, we find that the people of the Sunnah throughout history have followed the jurisprudential schools without disagreement, because the sciences have gathered the knowledge of the predecessors, refined it, and clarified it. What they agreed upon is a consensus that cannot be opposed, and what they disagreed upon allows for a range of opinions. The issue of the dead hearing is accepted by the majority of the people of the Sunnah, and it is considered in most of the schools, as mentioned in the books of the four schools. It is related to the issue of the reward reaching the dead, which has been accepted by the majority of the jurisprudential schools. And God knows best.