who said: Hammād narrated to us, from Sālim Abū ‘Abd Allāh, from ‘Abd Allāh ibn al-Hārith ibn Nawfal, concerning the words of Allah Most High:

“The heart did not lie about what it saw” (11) [al-Najm 11].

He said: “The Prophet—may Allah bless him and grant him peace—saw his Lord with his heart; his eyes did not see Him.”

This report is transmitted by Imam Ibn ‘Uyaynah from Mujālid. It also makes clear that al-Sha‘bī heard this from ‘Abd Allāh ibn al-Hārith. Thus it becomes clear that the first report, in addition to having weak narrators, has a disconnected chain, and that this report is from Ka‘b, as narrated by Ibn Khuzaymah: Hārūn ibn Ishāq narrated to us, saying: We were told by