many of its chains of transmission in his book The Vision of Allah. It is a lengthy hadith describing what will take place on the Day of Resurrection: Allah’s manifesting Himself to His servants and speaking to them, their crossing the Bridge, and the emergence from the Fire of those who affirm Allah’s oneness. It contains a number of the fundamental tenets of Ahl al-Sunnah that are denied by various factions among the followers of deviant doctrines, the Khawārij and the Mu‘tazilah