al-Ahwāzī, who said: Abū Ahmad al-Zubayrī narrated to us, saying: al-Hakam ibn Zuhayr narrated to us, from Ma‘mar, from al-Hasan, from Ubayy ibn Ka‘b, who said: “Al-Samad is the One from whom nothing has come forth and who has not come forth from anything—the One who neither begets nor is begotten.”

Bakr ibn Sahl also narrated to us, saying: ‘Abd al-Ghanī ibn Mūsā narrated to us, from Ibn Jurayj, from ‘Atā’, from Ibn ‘Abbās, and from