I said: That is because it belongs to His knowledge, and His knowledge is eternal. He then imparted some of it to His servants, as the Exalted says: “The Most Merciful—He taught the Quran” (55:1-2). The instructor may teach the complete recitation to one hundred, even two hundred students, who all memorize it, yet nothing of it departs from him—just like a lamp from which other lamps are lit while the original light remains undiminished.

184 – So in the printed edition; in the manuscript it reads: al-Jazzār. In al-Jarḥ wa-l-Taʿdīl 3/2/245: “Muḥammad ibn Khālid Abū Hārūn al-Kharrāz al-Rāzī … I wrote from him together with my father and Abū Zurʿah, and he is truthful.” I say: The evidence indicates that this is the same man; accordingly, the word “Khalaf” in both the printed edition and the manuscript is a corruption of “Khālid.” Allah knows best.

54 – The jurist of Madinah, ʿAbd al-Malik ibn al-Mājishūn (d. 214 AH)

212 – Ibn Abī Ḥātim said: Yaḥyā ibn Zakariyyā ibn ʿĪsā narrated to us; Hārūn ibn Mūsā al-Farawī narrated to us: “I heard no discussion about the Quran until the year 209 AH. A group came to ʿAbd al-Malik ibn al-Mājishūn and spoke with him. He rejected their views, and among the things he said was: ‘Say: He is Allah, the One (112:1)—is this created?’ He then added, ‘If I could seize Bishr al-Marrīsī, I would strike off his neck.’”

ʿAbd al-Malik was among Mālik’s most distinguished pupils. His father, ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn al-Mājishūn, issued legal opinions alongside Mālik during the caliphate of al-Mahdī. ʿAbd al-Malik died in 214 AH.

185 – I say: Its chain of transmission is sound. As for this Ibn ʿĪsā, Ibn Abī Ḥātim gives his biography (4/2/146): “I wrote from him together with my father; he is truthful, reliable.” Al-Farawī is counted among the narrators of al-Tahdhīb.