186 — Ibn Makhlad narrated to us, saying: Abū Dāwūd narrated to us, saying: I heard Ishāq ibn Rāhawayh, Hannād ibn al-Sarī, Abd al-Alā ibn Hammād, Ubayd Allah ibn Umar, Hakīm ibn Sayf al-Raqqī, Ayyūb ibn Muhammad, Sawwār ibn Abd Allah, al-Rabī ibn Sulaymān—the companion of al-Shāfiī—Abd al-Wahhāb ibn Abd al-Hakam, Muhammad ibn al-Sabbāh ⦗525⦘, Uthmān ibn Abī Shayba, Muhammad ibn Bakkār ibn al-Rayyān, Ahmad ibn Jawwās al-Hanafī, Wahb ibn Baqiyya, and more of our scholars than I can enumerate. I heard all of them say: “The Quran is the speech of Allah; it is not created.” Some of them said: “It is uncreated.”
Muhammad ibn al-Husayn said: What I have mentioned in this chapter is sufficient for anyone who understands and whose religion remains sound. Allah is the One who grants success in every right course.