and this applied to all people, as the other hadiths indicate. After this, the disbelievers were barred from seeing Him, as the Quran indicates. This is explicitly stated in the reports of Abū Razīn and Ibn Masʿūd, such as the report preserved from Ibn Masʿūd (may Allah be pleased with him), related by Ibn Khuzaymah and others from ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿUkaym. He said that he heard ʿAbd Allāh ibn Masʿūd begin with an oath before relating the report, saying:

“By Allah, there is not one of you with whom Allah will not be alone, just as any one of you is alone with the moon on the night when it is full—or he said, ‘on its night.’ He will say, ‘Son of Adam, what deluded you? Son of Adam, what deluded you? Son of Adam, what did you do with what you knew? Son of Adam, what answer did you give the messengers?’”

As for the hadith of Abū Razīn, it is well known in the Sunan and Musnad collections. However, the compilers of the Sunan excerpt from the report what is relevant to their collections, in keeping with