Abu ‘Amr ibn al-‘Alaʾ.¹ It was transmitted by ʿAbd Allah ibn Ahmad al-Ṣaghani² from Yaḥyā ibn Ayyūb.

150- I say: Ibn Abī Ḥātim also related it through the route of ʿAbd Allah ibn Muhammad ibn al-Faḍl al-Asadī, who said: “Yaḥyā ibn Ayyūb narrated to us.”
I say: this chain is sound. Al-Bukhārī likewise cited it in “The Creation of Actions,” p. 71: “Abū Jaʿfar—Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allah—told me; Yaḥyā ibn Ayyūb told me,” with the same report.
I say: this isnād too is authentic, and its transmitters are those used in the Ṣaḥīḥ. Abū Jaʿfar is Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allah ibn al-Mubārak al-Mukhramī. ʿAbd Allah has also produced it, as the author will cite shortly; it appears in “Al-Sunnah,” p. 30, with an equally sound chain.

32- Abū Muʿādh al-Balkhī, the jurist,³

171- Ibn Abī Ḥātim said: “Zakariyyā ibn Dāwūd ibn Bakr narrated to us: I heard Abū Qudāmah al-Sarkhasī; I heard Abū Muʿādh Khālid ibn Sulaymān in Farghānah say:

‘Jahm was in charge of the customs post at Termez. He was eloquent of tongue, yet he had no knowledge and did not sit with the scholars. He fell into conversation with the Simāniyyah (a pagan philosophical sect), and they said to him, “Describe for us the Lord you worship.” He went into a room and stayed there for several days, then came out and said, “He is this air: He is with everything, in everything, and nothing is devoid of Him.”’

Abū Muʿādh exclaimed, ‘The enemy of Allah has lied! Rather, Allah—exalted be He—is over the Throne just as He has described Himself.’”