Jahm never performed pilgrimage to this Sacred House, nor did he ever sit with the scholars; he was merely a man endowed with a sharp tongue.

Abū Dāwūd said: Aḥmad ibn al-Ṣabbāḥ narrated to us; ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥasan ibn Shaqīq narrated from Ibn al-Mubārak, who remarked, “We can repeat the words of the Jews and the Christians, but we cannot bring ourselves to repeat the words of the Jahmites.”

Al-Khallāl related: Harb ibn Ismāʿīl informed me; Muḥammad ibn Muṣfā narrated to us; Baqiyyah ibn al-Walīd narrated from ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn al-Mājishūn, who said, “Jahm and his faction are outright deniers.”

He also reported: ʿAbdullāh ibn Aḥmad narrated to us; al-Ḥasan ibn ʿĪsā, the protégé of Ibn al-Mubārak, narrated to us; Ḥammād ibn Qayrāṭ narrated: I heard Ibrāhīm ibn Ṭahmān say, “The Jahmites are unbelievers.”

ʿAbdullāh likewise narrated: Muḥammad ibn Ṣāliḥ, the client of Banū Hāshim, narrated to us; ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Qurayb al-Aṣmaʿī narrated; al-Muʿtamar ibn Sulaymān narrated from his father that he said, “No people have undermined Islam more severely than the Jahmites.”

ʿAbdullāh further said: Aḥmad ibn Ibrāhīm al-Dūrqī and ʿAlī ibn Muslim narrated to us; Sulaymān ibn Ḥarb narrated: I heard Ḥammād ibn Zayd—when he mentioned these Jahmites—remark, “All they are really trying to say is that there is nothing in the heaven.”

Al-Khallāl reported: I am Abū Bakr al-Marwazī; Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā ibn Saʿīd al-Qaṭṭān narrated to us; he said: My father and ʿAbd al-Raḥmān used to say, “The doctrine of the Jahmites revolves around the claim that there is no—”