and added: I also read it to my father, who said: ‘Abd Allāh ibn Ahmad ibn Hanbal narrated to us, saying: My father narrated to me, saying: ‘Abd al-Razzāq narrated to us, saying: Ma‘mar narrated to us, from Ayyūb, from Abū Qilābah, from Ibn ‘Abbās, that the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said:

“My Lord came to me last night in the most beautiful form”—meaning in a dream—“and said to me, ‘O Muhammad, do you know what the highest assembly is disputing about?’ I replied, ‘No.’ Then He placed His hand between my shoulders until I felt its coolness between my breasts.”’”

At the end of his book, in the section summarizing the attributes he had mentioned, al-Qādī also said: “And what is related in the hadith of Umm al-Tufayl and Ibn ‘Abbās concerning the attributes in which he saw Him on the night of the Night Journey.”

His reference here to “the night of the Night Journey” contradicts his own statements, for he explicitly stated that the Night Journey took place while the Prophet was awake, and that the vision on the night of the Night Journey was different from this vision in a dream. Moreover, the hadith he cited as evidence is in fact