Alī ibn al-Hasan ibn Shaqīq, from Ibn al-Mubārak, that he was asked, “How do we know Allah, Mighty and Majestic?” He replied, “Upon the Throne, with a limit.”’ He said, ‘That report from him has reached me,’ and he approved of it. Then Abū Abd Allāh recited:

‘Do they await anything but that Allah should come to them in canopies of clouds?’ [al-Baqarah 210]

Then he recited:

‘And your Lord comes, with the angels, rank upon rank.’ {22} [al-Fajr 22]”

Al-Khallāl said, “Al-Hasan ibn Sālih al-Attār informed us: Hārūn ibn Yaqūb al-Hāshimī narrated to us: I heard my father, Yaqūb ibn al-Abbās, say, ‘We were with Abū