or drink. “He neither begets nor is He begotten”: He has neither a child nor a parent to whom He is ascribed. “And there is none comparable to Him”: nothing in His creation equals Him in rank. He holds the heavens and the earth lest they cease to be.’” The hadith continues.

Ibn Jarīr said:

‘Abd al-Rahmān ibn al-Aswad narrated to us: Muhammad ibn Rabī‘ah narrated to us, from Salamah ibn Sābūr, from ‘Atiyyah, from Ibn ‘Abbās, who said: “Al-Samad is the One who is not hollow.”

Ibn Bashshār narrated to us: ‘Abd al-Rahmān narrated to us: Sufyān narrated to us, from Mansūr, from Mujāhid: “Al-Samad is solid, without any cavity.”

Abū Kurayb narrated to us: Wakī‘ narrated to us, from Sufyān, from Mansūr, with exactly the same wording.

Al-Hārith narrated to us: al-Hasan narrated to us: Warqā’ narrated to us, from Ibn Abī Najīh, from Mujāhid, with the same wording.

Ibn Bashshār narrated to us: ‘Abd al-Rahmān narrated to us: al-Rabī‘ ibn Muslim narrated to us, from al-Hasan, who said: “Al-Samad is the One who has no cavity.”

Through this same chain, Ibrāhīm ibn Maysarah said: “Mujāhid sent me to Sa‘īd ibn Jubayr to ask him about al-Samad. He replied: ‘The One who has no cavity.’”

Ibn Bashshār narrated to us: Yahyā narrated to us: Ismā‘īl ibn Abī Khālid narrated to us, from al-Sha‘bī, who said: “Al-Samad is the One who does not give food.” Ya‘qūb also narrated it from Hushaym, from Ismā‘īl, from him, with the wording: “He does not eat food or drink any drink.”

Ibn Bashshār and Zayd ibn Akhzam both narrated to us, saying: Ibn Dāwūd narrated to us, from al-Mustaqīm ibn ‘Abd al-Malik, from Sa‘īd ibn al-Musayyib, who said: “Al-Samad is the One with no internal contents