the sun and before its setting, then do so.”

They say: “Only Qays ibn Abī Hāzim narrated this, and he hated Alī.” Thus they suppose that this is the only hadith concerning the vision of Allah.

Those versed in hadith know that the hadiths concerning the vision of Allah are established through mass transmission more extensive than that of many reports these people consider mass-transmitted. The compilers of the authentic collections have adduced more of these hadiths as evidence than they have recorded concerning pre-emption, divorce, inheritance, prostration for forgetfulness, the merits of Uthmān and Alī, the prohibition of marrying a woman together with her paternal or maternal aunt, wiping over leather socks, consensus, non-mass-transmitted reports, analogical reasoning, and other subjects whose hadiths these people claim are mass-transmitted.

The hadiths concerning the vision of Allah therefore surpass those concerning each of these subjects, and the authentic collections contain more of them than they contain concerning these subjects.

One example is the lengthy hadith of Abū Hurayrah concerning Allah’s manifestation on the Day of Resurrection and their passage across the Bridge. It is also found in the authentic collection through the narrations of Abū Sa‘īd and Jābir.