690 — Abū Shuʿayb Abd Allah ibn al-Hasan al-Harrānī narrated to us: Muhammad ibn Bakkār narrated to us: Abū Maʿshar narrated to us, from Abd al-Rahmān ibn Muʿāwiya, who said:

“Allah, Majestic is His Glory, spoke to Moses, peace be upon him, only with as much of His speech as Moses could bear. Had He spoken with all of His speech, nothing could have borne it.”