The evil Haddaadis strayed as a result of their exaltation of some āthār over others, and their giving precedence to them over Allah and His Messenger's ﷺ statements. Thus they gave precedence to the āthār over the Book and the Sunnah.

In reality they did not give precedence to the āthār. On the contrary, they gave precedence to their corrupt understanding of the āthār over the Book and the Sunnah, and the rest of the āthār.