Basra when a man brought him a Qur’an codex and said, “Is this not merely paper and ink, and therefore created?” Salām replied, “Stand up, you heretic.”

126 – The compiler records it from Abū Ḥātim al-Rāzī: “Yaʿqūb ibn Yūsuf ibn al-Jārūd narrated to me from ʿAffān ibn Muslim.”
I comment: This isnād is sound up to Salām. ʿAffān is reliable and is cited by both al-Bukhārī and Muslim, while Yaʿqūb ibn Yūsuf—al-Dashtakī—was said by Ibn Abī Ḥātim (4/2/217): “My father transmitted from him, and when asked about him he said, ‘He is truthful.’”

15 – Shurayk the judge, one of the eminent scholars; d. 177 or 178 AH.

146 – ʿAbbād ibn al-ʿAwwām said:
“Shurayk ibn ʿAbd Allāh came to us about fifty years ago. We said to him, ‘Abū ʿAbd Allāh, among us are some Muʿtazilites who deny these hadiths—“that Allah descends to the lowest heaven” and “that the people of Paradise will see their Lord.”’ Shurayk then narrated to me roughly ten hadiths on the matter and added, ‘As for us, we took our religion from the children of the Successors, who took it from the Companions; from whom did they take theirs?’”

127 – The compiler cites it through Muḥammad ibn Isḥāq al-Ṣāghānī: “Salam ibn Qādim narrated to us; Mūsā ibn Dāwūd narrated to us; ʿAbbād ibn al-ʿAwwām narrated to us.”
I say: This isnād is sound; all its transmitters are trustworthy and are among Muslim’s narrators except for Salam ibn Qādim, whom al-Khaṭīb declared reliable in Taʾrīkh (9/145). This is a useful note not found in al-Lisān, so let it be added there. Ibn Mandah likewise recorded it in Kitāb al-Tawḥīd (fol. 97/1) through another route from ʿAbbād with similar wording: “What do they reject? The very one who brought the prayer and the rest of the Sunnah from the Messenger of Allah ﷺ is the one who brought these reports.” That chain too is authentic.