al-Mutawakkil in a dream, with an immense, blazing fire before him. I said, ‘O Commander of the Faithful, for whom is this fire?’ He replied, ‘It is for my son al-Muntasir, because he killed me. Do you know why he killed me? Because I told him that Allah will be seen in the Hereafter.’”’

Abū Saʿīd said that Ibrāhīm al-Harbī said: “This is a true dream, for al-Mutawakkil personally wrote down, from ʿAbd al-Aʿlā, the hadith narrated by Hammād ibn Salama, from Yaʿlā ibn ʿAtāʾ, from Wakīʿ ibn Hudus, saying, ‘I shall write it only with my own hand.’”

The Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, thus affirmed that Allah will be seen on the Day of Resurrection when the questioner asked him about this and about a sign of it in His creation. A sign is a mark and an indication—something by which this is known and which demonstrates its possibility. The Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, therefore mentioned to him something that demonstrates this by means of analogy