Muhammad ibn Ka'b al-Qurazī, who said, ‘Al-Samad is the One who neither begets nor is begotten, and to whom none is equal.’

He also said: Muhammad ibn 'Alī ibn al-Hasan ibn Shaqīq narrated to us: my father narrated to us: al-Husayn ibn Wāqid narrated to us: 'Āsim ibn Bahdalah narrated to us, from Shaqīq, from 'Abd Allah ibn Mas'ūd, who said, ‘Al-Samad is the Master whose mastery is perfect.’ However, this is reliably transmitted from Shaqīq