from Abū Razīn, who said: “I asked, ‘O Messenger of Allah, will we see our Lord on the Day of Resurrection?’ He replied, ‘Yes.’ I asked, ‘What sign of that is there in His creation?’ He said, ‘Do you not all look at the moon on the night when it is full? Yet it is only one of Allah’s creations. Allah is greater and more majestic.’”

In the narration of Hammād ibn Salamah, from Yaʿlā ibn ʿAtāʾ, from Wakīʿ ibn Hadas, from his uncle Abū Razīn, he said: “I asked, ‘O Messenger of Allah, will we all see Allah on the Day of Resurrection? What sign of that is there in His creation?’ He said, ‘O Abū Razīn, does not each of you see the moon on his own?’ I replied, ‘Yes.’ He said, ‘And Allah is greater. That is His sign in His creation.’” This was related by Ahmad, Abū Dāwūd and Ibn Mājah.

Abū Dāwūd’s wording is: “I asked, ‘O Messenger of Allah, will each of us see his Lord (in another narration of his: “alone with Him”) on the Day of Resurrection? What sign of that is there in His creation?’ He said, ‘O Abū Razīn, does not each of you see the moon (in another narration of his: “on the night when it is full”), each alone with it?’ I replied, ‘Yes.’ He said, ‘And Allah is greater.’”

Al-Khallāl said: “I heard Abū