119 – Reported by the two Shaykhs—al-Bukhārī and Muslim—in their Ṣaḥīḥ collections from the narration of Abū Hurayrah and others; Ibn Abī ʿĀṣim also includes it in al-Sunnah through several chains, 443–458.

120 – Reported by the two Shaykhs and by others from Abū Hurayrah; likewise recorded in al-Sunnah, 525.

121 – Al-Bukhārī transmits a similar report from Abū Hurayrah with the wording: “Allah laughed tonight, or He marveled….” Ibn Abī ʿĀṣim records it in al-Sunnah, 570, and Muslim also narrates it, though without the mention of laughter; none of them name Thābit ibn Qays, for in Muslim’s version it is Abū Ṭalḥah, a man of the Anṣār. See Fatḥ al-Bārī 7/90–91.

11 – Ḥammād ibn Zayd al-Baṣrī, the ḥāfiẓ, one of the leading authorities (98–179 AH). He and Mālik died in the same year.

141 – Sulaymān ibn Ḥarb said: I heard Ḥammād ibn Zayd say, “All they keep circling around is to declare that there is no god in the heaven”—meaning the Jahmiyyah.

I say: The creed of the early generations, the Imams of the Sunnah, indeed of the Companions—and of Allah, His Messenger, and the believers—is that Allah is in the heaven, that Allah is upon the Throne, that Allah is above His heavens, and that He descends to the lowest heaven. Their proof for this is the textual evidences and the transmitted reports.

The doctrine of the Jahmiyyah is that Allah is present in every place. Exalted is He above what they claim; rather, He is with us wherever we are, by His knowledge.

The position of the later scholastic theologians is that Allah is not in the heaven, nor upon the Throne, nor above the heavens, nor on earth; He is neither inside the universe nor outside it; He is neither separate from His creation nor connected to them!