= Like the Khawarij and the Jahmiyyah. See: Some hadiths on divine attributes found in the Introduction to Sunan Ibn Mājah – Chapter “On what the Jahmiyyah deny,” vol. 1, pp. 63–73, hadiths 177, 185, 189, 194, 195, 198, 200. The Sunan has been explained in several commentaries, fully surveyed by Fuad Sezgin in his History of Arabic Heritage: Quranic and Hadith Sciences, vol. 1, part 1, pp. 286–288. See also: – Tadhkirat al-Huffāẓ by al-Dhahabī, vol. 2, pp. 636–637. – Tahdhīb al-Tahdhīb by Ibn Ḥajar, vol. 9, pp. 530–532. – Shatharāt al-Dhahab by Ibn al-‘Imād, vol. 2, p. 164. – al-ʿAlām by al-Zarkalī, vol. 8, p. 15. (1) He is Abū al-Ḥusayn Muslim ibn al-Ḥajjāj ibn Muslim al-Qushayrī al-Nīsābūrī, one of the leading imams and masters of ḥadīth who traveled widely to collect transmissions. Born 202 AH, died 261 AH. He is renowned for his work al-Jāmiʿ al-Ṣaḥīḥ, in which he included hadiths on divine attributes. See, for example: – Kitāb al-Īmān, Chapter “Affirming the believers’ vision of their Lord in the Hereafter,” vol. 1, p. 163, hadiths 296–298; Chapter “Knowing the path of the vision,” vol. 1, pp. 163–171, hadiths 299–303. – Kitāb al-Imārah, Chapter “Clarifying that one of two men slays the other,” vol. 3, pp. 1504–1505, hadiths 128–129. Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim has been commented upon by many scholars and abridged by others, such as al-Qāḍī ʿIyāḍ, al-Nawawī, al-Munḏhirī, and others. For Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim and its commentaries, see: – Carl Brockelmann, History of Arabic Literature, vol. 3, pp. 179–185. – Fuad Sezgin, History of Arabic Heritage, vol. 1, part 1, pp. 263–276. For his biography, see: – Tārīkh Baghdād by al-Baghdādī, vol. 13, pp. 100–104. – Wafayāt al-Aʿyān by Ibn Khallikān, vol. 5, pp. 194–195. – Tadhkirat al-Huffāẓ by al-Dhahabī, vol. 2, pp. 588–590. – Ṭabaqāt al-Ḥanābilah by Ibn Abī Ya‘là, vol. 1, pp. 337–339. (2) He is Abū ʿĪsā Muḥammad ibn ʿĪsā ibn Sūrāh ibn Mūsā al-Sulamī al-Tirmidhī, from Tirmidh on the Jeyhūn River, one of the foremost imams of ḥadīth scholars and masters. Born 209 AH, died 279 AH. Among his works is al-Jāmiʿ al-Ṣaḥīḥ, in which he included—may God have mercy on him—hadiths on divine attributes that refute the Jahmiyyah and Muʿtazilah. See, for example: – The Chapters on Prayer – Chapter “What has been reported about the Lord’s descent…”