the report concerning the vision of Allah, in his refutation of the Jahmiyyah.

This hadith is reliably transmitted by Sufyān ibn ‘Uyaynah from Suhayl. In the Sahīh, this is the only hadith transmitted by Ibn ‘Uyaynah from Suhayl. Muslim, however, narrated only the portion he needed—the beginning—and omitted the remainder because it appears in the preceding chains of transmission, which are superior to this chain: the narration of al-Zuhrī from Sa‘īd ibn al-Musayyab and ‘Atā’ ibn Yazīd, and that of ‘Atā’ ibn Yasār from Abū Sa‘īd. Their narrations through those chains are also fuller. Al-Nasā’ī narrated the hadith in full, as did Ahmad and Ibn