The hadith master Abū Bakr al-Bayhaqī narrated through an authentic chain of transmission from Ibn Wahb, who said:

We were with Mālik when a man entered and said, “Abū 'Abd Allāh, ‘The Most Merciful rose over the Throne (5)’ [Sūrah Tā Hā: 5]—how did He rise over it?” Mālik lowered his head and began to sweat profusely, then raised his head