Ibrāhīm ibn Abī Ṭālib was a trustworthy ḥāfiẓ; he died in 295 AH. This report was also cited by al-Ṣābūnī in ʿAqīdat al-Salaf, 1/113 (al-Majmūʿah al-Munīriyyah).

238 – Abū Bakr al-Khallāl said: “Al-Marwadī informed us; Muḥammad ibn al-Ṣabāḥ al-Naysābūrī narrated to us; Abū Dāwūd al-Khaffāf Sulaymān ibn Dāwūd narrated, saying: Isḥāq ibn Rāhwayh said:
‘The Almighty said, “The Most Merciful rose over the Throne” (Q 20:5). The unanimous view of the scholars is that He rose above the Throne, while He knows everything that lies in the seventh earth beneath.’
Listen—may you be guided—to how this eminent Imām conveyed the consensus on this noble question, exactly as Qutaybah, mentioned earlier, conveyed it in his own day.

207 – I say: I have found no biographical entry for Muḥammad ibn al-Ṣabāḥ al-Naysābūrī, and the same goes for Abū Dāwūd al-Khaffāf; discussion of the latter has already appeared above.

239 – Ibn Abī Ḥātim said: Aḥmad ibn Salamah al-Naysābūrī narrated to us: I heard Isḥāq ibn Ibrāhīm al-Ḥanẓalī—may Allah have mercy on him—say:
‘There is no disagreement among the scholars that the Qur’an is the speech of Allah and is not created. How, then, could something that has proceeded from the Lord be created?’
Isḥāq was one of the greatest imams of independent reasoning and a leading ḥāfiẓ. He died in 233 AH at a little over seventy years of age, and Khurāsān left no one like him behind.

208 – I say: Its chain is sound.

68 – Abū ʿAbd Allāh Ibn al-Aʿrābī, the foremost linguist of his time (151–231 AH).

240 – Muhammad ibn Aḥmad ibn al-Naḍr ibn Bint Muʿāwiyah ibn ʿAmr reported: “Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Aʿrābī was our neighbour, and his nights were the finest of nights. He related to us that Ibn Abī Dāwūd once asked him, ‘In the Arabic language, does istawā ever mean istaulā (to take possession)?’ He replied, ‘I do not know it with that meaning.’”