Al-Khallāl related in The Book of the Sunnah: Abū Bakr al-Marwadhī narrated to us: “I asked Abū ‘Abd Allāh about the hadiths concerning the vision of Allah. He declared them authentic and said, ‘The scholars have received them with acceptance. Let us accept the report as it has been transmitted.’”

Hanbal ibn Ishāq reported: “I heard Abū ‘Abd Allāh say, ‘The people we knew did not reject any of these hadiths—the hadiths concerning the vision of Allah. They would narrate them as a whole, leaving them as they were, without