and:
Never did you so much as cast a glance at anyone
without at the same time decreeing his provision and his span of life.⦗1⦘
‘Those prerogatives belong to God alone! Pull his tongue out through the back of his neck.’ They carried out the order, and he died in 213 AH, departing this world while still a man in his prime.⦗2⦘
42 – al-Jawzajānī, Mūsā b. Sulaymān al-Ḥanafī *
The erudite scholar, the Imām, Abū Sulaymān Mūsā b. Sulaymān al-Jawzajānī, the Ḥanafī, a close associate of Abū Yūsuf and Muḥammad.
He transmitted reports from both of them and from Ibn al-Mubārak. Those who narrated from him include the judge Aḥmad b. Muḥammad al-Birtī, Bishr b. Mūsā, Abū Ḥātim al-Rāzī, and many others.
He was truthful and dearly loved by the people of ḥadīth. Ibn Ḥātim said, ‘He declared the advocates of the doctrine that the Qurʾān was created to be unbelievers.’⦗3⦘ It is also related that al-Maʾmūn offered him the post of judge, but he declined⦗4⦘, pleading that he was not