al-Khallāl in his Book of the Sunnah: Muhammad ibn Abd Allāh ibn Ibrāhīm informed me; Abū Ja‘far related to me: A man used to visit Abū Ubayd. He asked him about the hadith in which it is reported that al-Baqarah and Āl Imrān will come on the Day of Resurrection as though they were two clouds or two canopies: “Does this not indicate that this is created?” Abū Ubayd replied: Ismā‘īl ibn Ibrāhīm narrated to us, from Alī ibn Zayd ibn Jud‘ān, from Sa‘īd ibn