I say: Al-Tabarānī’s narration of this report through another chain, traced back to the Prophet without any uncertainty, has already been cited.

It was also narrated through the following chain: Muhammad ibn Ishāq al-Saghānī said: Muhammad ibn Bakkār narrated to us: Abū Maʿshar narrated to us, from Muhammad ibn Kaʿb, who said concerning the words of Allah, Mighty and Majestic, “Allah, al-Samad”:

“Had He left it unexplained, men would have stared in bewilderment and asked, ‘What does Samad mean?’ So He informed them that al-Samad is the One who neither begets nor is born, and to whom none is equal.”

He said: “We have also transmitted a similar explanation of al-Samad from ʿIkrimah.” He then narrated through Shuʿbah, from Abū Rajāʾ, that