As for their report that Ibn 'Abbās—may Allah be pleased with him and his father—said, “He came with canopies of clouds,” meaning that He sends them but does not Himself come, this is a lie against Ibn 'Abbās, and they have provided no chain of transmission for it. Indeed, it has been narrated from Ibn 'Abbās through several chains that Allah Himself comes, as related by Uthmān ibn Sa'īd, who said: Mūsā ibn Ismā'īl narrated to us: Hammād ibn Salamah narrated to us, from Alī ibn Zayd, from Yūsuf ibn