51 – al-Humaydī, ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Zubayr (d. 219 AH)

207 – The compiler transmits with his chain from ʿAbd al-Ghaffār ibn Muḥammad, who said: Abū ʿAlī al-Ṣawwān informed us; Bishr ibn Mūsā informed us; al-Humaydī said: “The fundamentals of the Sunnah, according to us, are …” He then listed several points and added: “Whatever has been articulated in the Quran and the hadith, such as: ‘The Jews say, “Allah’s hand is chained.” May their own hands be chained’ (Q 5:64), and His statement, ‘The heavens will be folded up in His Right Hand’ (Q 39:67), and everything of this kind in the Quran and the hadith—we neither add to it nor interpret it. We halt where the Quran and the Sunnah halt and we simply say, ‘The All-Merciful rose over the Throne’ (Q 20:5). Whoever claims otherwise is a Jahmī who invalidates the truth.”

The scholar Abū Bakr ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Zubayr al-Qurashī al-Asadī al-Humaydī was the muftī of Mecca and its leading scholar after his teacher Sufyān ibn ʿUyaynah. Al-Bukhārī and the foremost authorities narrated from him. He died in 219 AH.

181 – I say: ʿAbd al-Ghaffār ibn Muḥammad is Abū Ṭāhir al-Muʾaddib. He has a biography in al-Khaṭīb’s History (11/116), where al-Khaṭīb writes: “I wrote from him, and I heard Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Ṣūrī disparage him and mention matters that indicate his weakness.” I say: Perhaps he has corroboration, for I have seen that Ibn Taymiyyah recorded this very statement from al-Humaydī in his book Mafṣal al-Iʿtiqād (p. 6). Allah knows best.

52 – The Scholar of the East, Yaḥyā ibn Yaḥyā al-Naysābūrī (d. 226 AH)

208 – Ibn Mundah said: Muḥammad ibn Yaʿqūb al-Shaybānī informed us; Muḥammad ibn ʿAmr ibn al-Naḍr narrated to us; Yaḥyā ibn Yaḥyā narrated: “I was with Mālik when a man came and said, ‘Abū ʿAbd Allāh, “The All-Merciful rose over the Throne” (Q 20:5)?’ Mālik lowered his head, then said, ‘The rising (istiwāʾ) is not unknown; the how is inconceivable; believing in it is obligatory; and asking about it is an innovation.’”

182 – I say: Its transmitters are trustworthy except for Ibn al-Naḍr, whom I have not identified.

Muḥammad ibn Yaʿqūb al-Shaybānī is the ḥāfiẓ Ibn al-Akhram, the hadith scholar of Nīshāpūr and one of al-Ḥākim’s teachers; he died in 344 AH.

As for Ibn Mundah, he is the ḥāfiẓ Muḥammad ibn Isḥāq.