that the Qur’an is created, and he would say, “Allah is present in every place.”
Ibn Ḥazm said: “He and Muqātil stood at opposite ends of the spectrum on anthropomorphism.”
Jahm also maintained, “Faith is nothing but an inward conviction, even if a person openly utters unbelief.”
It is reported that Salm ibn Aḥwaz killed Jahm because he denied that Allah spoke to Moses.
9 – Yaḥyā ibn Abī Kathīr Abū Naṣr al-Ṭāʾī, their mawlā (ʿ)
The Imām, the ḥāfiẓ, one of the leading luminaries—Abū Naṣr al-Ṭāʾī, their client, from al-Yamāmah.
His father’s name was Ṣāliḥ; others said Yasār, and others said Nashīṭ.
He narrated from: Abū Umāmah al-Bāhilī—cited in Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim, though the chain there is mursal; from Anas ibn Mālik—recorded in the Sunan of al-Nasāʾī; and from Abū Salamah ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, ʿAbd Allāh ibn Abī Qatādah, Abū Qilābah al-Jurmi, Baʿjah ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Juhanī, ʿImrān ibn Ḥiṭṭān, Hilāl ibn Abī Maymūnah, and many others.
He also transmitted—mursalan—from Jābir, as well as from Dīnār, al-Sāʾib ibn Yazīd, Ḍamḍam ibn Jaws, ʿUqbah ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Ghāfirī, ʿUbayd Allāh ibn Miqsam, ʿIkrimah, Ḥayyah ibn Ḥābis, Nāfiʿ, Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm al-Taymī, and Abū Salām al-Ḥabashī. He even descended the chain to narrate from Zayd ibn Salām—the grandson of that (earlier) transmitter—and from al-Awzāʿī, who was his own student.
He was an earnest seeker of knowledge and a reliable authority.
Those who narrated from him include his son ʿAbd Allāh, Maʿmar, al-Awzāʿī, Hishām ibn Abī ʿAbd Allāh, Ḥarb ibn Shaddād, ʿIkrimah ibn ʿAmmār, Shaybān the grammarian, Hammām ibn Yaḥyā, and Abān.