Al-Khallāl said: “I asked Ibrāhīm al-Harbī about the report of Wahb ibn Munabbih: ‘The heavens and the earth are indeed within the haykal.’ He replied: ‘The haykal is something immense. When you enter a church and see something immense, that is what they call the haykal. The haykal is indeed within the Kursī, and the Kursī is indeed within the Throne.’ He said: ‘The Throne is greater than that.’”

‘Uthmān ibn Sa‘īd narrated: Al-Himmānī narrated to us: Al-Hakam ibn Zuhayr narrated to us, from ‘Āsim, from Zirr, from ‘Abd Allāh—that is, Ibn