that Allah Most High has a place—exalted is Allah above that! This wording, however, was transmitted in this account by Sharīk ibn Abd Allāh ibn Abī Namir alone. His fellow transmitters differed with him on this point and did not corroborate him. Such an addition should be rejected, not accepted, because it entails an impossibility, and because a narrator’s fellow transmitters contradicting his account is like conflicting testimony: when two sets of testimony contradict one another, both are set aside. It is also possible