Hoping to expose him as a fraud, Ibn ʿAfāliq proceeds to ask Ibn ʿAbd al-Wahhāb a series of advanced questions about the different branches of religious knowledge, demanding that the Najdī respond in ten volumes (fī ʿasharat mujalladāt), as anyone capable of ijtihād could surely do, and calling on his supporters to force him to respond within one year.119 No such response, of course, was forthcoming.
