reliable authorities such as Ibn Khuzaymah, al-Khallāl, and others who compiled reports on this subject. Indeed, al-Khallāl narrated two reports through al-Dahhāk from Ibn ‘Abbās, who said: “He saw Him with his heart, not with his eyes.” This conflicts with the foregoing report.

This is clarified by the fact that the reliably transmitted reports from ‘Ikrimah and al-Sha‘bī either specify that the vision was with the heart or leave it unqualified. For example, Ibn Khuzaymah narrated: “Al-Hasan ibn Muhammad al-Za‘farānī narrated to us, saying: Muhammad ibn al-Sabbāh narrated to us, saying: Ismā‘īl ibn Zakariyyā narrated to us, from ‘Āsim, from al-Sha‘bī, from