their usual practice. Thus, Abū Dāwūd and Ibn Mājah narrated from Abū Razīn al-‘Uqaylī, who said:

“I said, ‘O Messenger of Allah, will each of us see his Lord, alone with Him, on the Day of Resurrection? And what sign of this is there in His creation?’ He replied, ‘Abū Razīn, does not each of you see the moon on the night when it is full, alone with it?’ I said, ‘Yes.’ He said, ‘It is only one of Allah Most High’s creations, and Allah is greater.’”

This report has also been narrated at length through another chain, as related by Abū Bakr ibn Khuzaymah in his Book of Divine Oneness, in which he stipulated that he would cite as evidence only hadiths established as authentic. He also related it