from Ya‘qūb ibn ‘Utbah, from Jubayr. Some then say that Ibn Ishāq did not say, “He narrated to me,” so there may be a break in the chain. Others appeal to criticisms that some have made of Ibn Ishāq. Yet this hadith, others like it, and reports resembling it in wording and meaning have continued to circulate among scholars, generation after generation. The early generations of the Ummah and its imams have consistently narrated these reports, affirming their truth, using them to refute those Jahmiyyah who opposed them, and receiving them with acceptance. Indeed, Imam Abū Bakr Muhammad ibn Ishāq ibn Khuzaymah narrated it in his book on divine oneness, in which he stipulated that he would cite as evidence only hadiths transmitted by reliable narrators