• when he was told:

“Abd al-Wahhāb has spoken out, saying: ‘Whoever claims that Allah spoke to Moses without a voice is a Jahmī, an enemy of Allah and an enemy of Islam.’”

Abū Abd Allāh smiled and said, “How excellent his words are! May Allah grant him well-being!”’

Abd Allāh ibn Ahmad said:

‘I asked my father about people who say that when Allah spoke to Moses, He did not speak with a voice.

My father replied:

“Yes, He—Blessed and Exalted—spoke with a voice. We narrate these hadiths just as they have come down to us, including the hadith of Ibn Masūd:

‘When Allah speaks revelation, His voice is heard, like a chain being dragged over smooth stone.’”

My father said, “The Jahmiyyah deny it.”

My father said:

“These people are disbelievers who want to mislead people. Whoever claims that Allah did not speak is a disbeliever. We simply narrate these hadiths just as they have come down to us.”’”