And the Qur’an is the speech of Allah, an attribute of His very Essence, uncreated; whoever claims that it is created is an unbeliever.
ʿImrān said: “This is the creed to which I adhere, and I have never seen a single traditionist who did not profess it.”
I say: He died in Jurjān in the month of Rajab, in the year 305 AH, while he was in his nineties.
Ibn ʿAsākir informed us; Abū Rūḥ conveyed to us; Ibn Ṭāhir informed us; Abū Saʿd informed us; Abū ʿAmr al-Ḥīrī informed us; ʿImrān ibn Mūsā told me; Ibrāhīm ibn al-Mundhir reported to us; Maʿn reported to us; Mālik related from Nāfiʿ, from Ibn ʿUmar, that the Prophet ﷺ said: “Whoever draws a weapon against us is not one of us.” (1)
Hamzah al-Sahmī (2) said: “He had compiled a Musnad, and a number of people narrated from him.” Al-Ismāʿīlī told me: “Abū Isḥāq ʿImrān ibn Mūsā al-Jurjānī was reliable—indeed, the foremost traditionist of the region in his time.”
69 – Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī ibn Makhlad ibn Farqad al-Aṣbahānī*
The shaykh, long-lived and trustworthy, Abū Jaʿfar al-Aṣbahānī,