ibn Ja‘far al-Makhzūmī, who said: I heard ‘Abd Allāh ibn ‘Abbās say: “This Black Stone is Allah’s right hand on earth, with which He shakes hands with His servants as a man shakes hands with his brother.” This is the well-known version.

The judge then said: “Know that this report is not to be understood literally, because treating the Stone as an attribute of His essence—namely, a right hand—would distort His attributes and strip them of what befits them, for the Stone is a created body situated