Fourteenth: Jābir’s hadith in the Sahīh states: “Then our Lord comes to us after that, and they ask, ‘Whom are you waiting for?’ They reply, ‘We are waiting for our Lord.’ He says, ‘I am your Lord.’ They say, ‘Not until we look upon You.’ Then He reveals Himself to them, laughing.” He said: “Then He leads them on, and they follow Him.”

This explicitly states that the One who came to them and revealed Himself to them is their Lord, and that they recognized Him when He revealed Himself to them, laughing. The remainder of this will be discussed later, if Allah Most High wills.

Fifteenth: All the wordings of the hadith explicitly state that the One who came and said, “I am your Lord,” is the One whom they saw and to whom they prostrated. It follows that the One who revealed Himself and to whom they prostrated is Himself the One who came. If the one who came were merely an angel or one of the created blessings, this would not hold. This is why Imam Ahmad cited the affirmation of Allah’s coming as evidence concerning the question of seeing Him.

Al-Khallāl related in his book al-Sunnah, on the authority of Abū Tālib, who said: “And Allah, Mighty and Majestic, says:

‘Are they waiting for anything but that Allah should come to them in canopies of clouds, together with the angels?’ [al-Baqarah 210]

‘And your Lord comes, and the angels, rank upon rank.’ (22) [al-Fajr 22]

Whoever says that Allah will not be seen has disbelieved.”

Thus he made clear that these