came to me last night in the most beautiful form and said, ‘O Muhammad, do you know what the highest assembly is disputing about?’ I replied, ‘I do not know, my Lord.’ Then He placed His palm between my shoulders until I felt the coolness of His fingertips in my chest, and what lay between heaven and earth appeared before me”—and he related the remainder of the hadith.

Al-Hasan ibn Yūsuf al-Tarā’ifī informed us in Egypt: Ibrāhīm ibn Marzūq narrated to us: Abū ‘Āmir al-‘Aqadī narrated to us: Zuhayr ibn Muhammad narrated to us, from Yazīd ibn Yazīd ibn Jābir, from Khālid ibn al-Lajlāj, from ‘Abd al-Rahmān ibn ‘Ā’ish, from some of the Companions of