‘Abd al-Rahmān narrated to us, saying: Sahl narrated to us, saying: Yazīd ibn Zuray‘ narrated to us, from Sa‘īd, from Qatādah, from al-Hasan, who said: “Al-Samad is the One who neither begets nor is begotten.”

Al-Hadramī narrated to us, saying: Muhammad ibn Bakkār ibn al-Rayyān narrated to us, saying: Abū Ma‘shar narrated to us, from Muhammad ibn Ka‘b, who said concerning His saying, “Al-Samad”: “Had He left it unexplained, men would have occupied themselves with it, asking, ‘What is al-Samad?’ He therefore told them that al-Samad is the One who neither begets nor is begotten, and to whom none is comparable.”

Zakariyyā al-Sājī narrated to us, saying: We were told by Ahmad ibn Ishāq