“Whoever rejects the hadith narrated by Qatādah, from ‘Ikrimah, from Ibn ‘Abbās, reporting that the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said, ‘I saw my Lord, Mighty and Majestic,’ is a Mu‘tazilite.”

I also heard ‘Alī ibn Ahmad ibn Mihrān al-Madīnī say, “I was with Abū ‘Abd Allāh ibn Mahdī, and a group of people had gathered with us. They discussed ‘Ikrimah’s hadith, and some of them rejected it. I had memorized it, so I narrated it in full. Abū ‘Abd Allāh rose and came over to me, kissed my head, and prayed for me.”

He said: Muhammad ibn Muhammad ibn al-Hasan also narrated to us: Ahmad ibn Muhammad al-Lakhmī narrated to us: I heard Muhammad ibn ‘Alī ibn Ja‘far al-Baghdādī say: I heard Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn