heaven is a distance of a thousand years,” he should have said: “Between His Kursī and the Throne,” as in the well-known hadith from Ibn Masūd. Among those who also narrated it was al-Hākim Abū Ahmad:

Muhammad ibn al-Abbās narrated to us, saying: Abd al-Wahhāb ibn Abd al-Hakīm al-Warrāq narrated to me, saying: Hāshim ibn al-Qāsim Abū al-Nadr narrated to us, from al-Masūdī, from Āsim ibn Abī al-Najūd, from Zirr ibn Hubaysh,