from ʿĀʼishah, who said:
“Whoever claims that Muhammad saw his Lord has uttered a monstrous lie against Allah. What he actually saw was Gabriel—twice—in his true form and stature, filling the space between the horizons.”
Al-Bukhārī recorded it (1) through Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Ismāʿīl ibn Abī al-Thalj, from al-Anṣārī.
190 – Ibn al-Nahḥās ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿUmar al-Tujībī
The shaykh, imām, jurist, ḥadīth scholar, and trustworthy transmitter of the Egyptian lands, Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿUmar ibn Muḥammad ibn Saʿīd al-Tujībī, the Egyptian, the Mālikī, the cloth-merchant, commonly known as Ibn al-Nahḥās.
He was born on the night of ʿĪd al-Aḍḥā in 323 AH.
His first audition of ḥadīth was at the age of eight, in 331 AH. He performed the pilgrimage in 339 AH, then remained in the Sacred Precincts and narrated extensively from Abū Saʿīd ibn al-Aʿrābī.
In Egypt he heard from: Abū Ṭāhir Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAmr al-Madīnī; ʿAlī ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Abī Maṭar al-Iskandarānī; Aḥmad ibn Buhzādh al-Sīrāfī; Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Faḍālah al-Dimashqī—who had travelled to them; Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Ḥafṣ al-Baṣrī, known as Ibn al-Waṣī; ʿUthmān ibn Muḥammad al-Samarkandī; al-Ḥasan ibn Mulayḥ al-Ṭarāʾifī; Muḥammad ibn Bishr al-ʿAkkarī; Muḥammad ibn Ayyūb ibn al-Ṣammūt; and ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad ibn