22 – Abu al-Qasim reported to us; Muhammad ibn Rizq Allah narrated to us; ʿUthman ibn Ahmad narrated to us; ʿIsa ibn Musa narrated, saying: I heard my father say, “I heard Sufyan ibn ʿUyaynah declare, ‘Every description with which Allah, exalted is He, has characterized Himself in the Quran—its very recitation is its commentary. There is no asking how and no drawing of likeness.’”

23 – It is related from Ahmad ibn Nasr that he asked Sufyan ibn ʿUyaynah about the hadith of ʿAbd Allah that Allah will place the heaven upon a finger, and about the hadith stating that the hearts of the servants are between two fingers of the Most Merciful, and that Allah marvels—or laughs—at the one who remembers Him in