“Chapter on the transmitted reports affirming that the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, saw his Creator, the Almighty, the All-Knowing, who is veiled from the sight of His creatures before the Day when Allah will recompense every soul for what it has earned; and on Allah’s singling out His Prophet Muhammad, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, for this vision, just as He singled out Abraham, peace be upon him, for intimate friendship from among all the messengers and prophets, and singled out His Prophet Moses by speaking to him—a distinction Allah granted him from among all the messengers. Allah bestowed upon each of them a particular excellence and an exalted rank, out of His generosity and bounty, as He, Almighty and Majestic, tells us in His clear revelation:

‘Those messengers—We favored some above others. Among them were those to whom Allah spoke, and He raised some of them in rank.’ [al-Baqarah 253]”

The chapter then included the hadith transmitted by Hishām al-Dastawā’ī, from Qatādah, from ʿIkrimah, from Ibn ʿAbbās, who said: “Are you surprised that Abraham should be granted intimate friendship