al-Mubārak ibn Fadālah, who said: al-Hasan used to swear by Allah that Muhammad had indeed seen his Lord.

Abū Bakr al-Khallāl said: Muhammad ibn ʿAlī al-Warrāq informed us, saying: Ibrāhīm ibn Hāniʾ narrated to us, saying: Ahmad ibn ʿĪsā narrated to us—Ahmad ibn Hanbal had told him, “Relate it to them,” at his uncle’s house—saying: ʿAbd Allāh ibn Wahb narrated to us, saying: ʿAmr ibn al-Hārith informed me, from Saʿīd ibn Abī