that the Jews said to the Prophet (may Allah bless him and grant him peace), ‘Describe your Lord to us.’ He did not know how to answer them, so the following was revealed:

‘Say: He is Allah, the One (1).
Allah, the Eternal Refuge (2).
He neither begets nor is born (3),
and none is comparable to Him (4).’

Ma'mar informed us, from al-Hasan, who said concerning al-Samad: ‘The Everlasting.’ Ma'mar said that 'Ikrima said: ‘He is the One who has no hollow interior.’”

'Abd al-Razzāq said: “Qays ibn Rabī' informed us, from Mujāhid, from 'Āsim,