I say: He also met Muslim ibn Ibrāhīm, Saʿīd ibn Abī Maryam, and their peers, and in learning he was in no way inferior to Abū Muḥammad al-Dārimī of Samarqand. He died, after 280 AH, in Sijistān. His book contains astonishing exchanges with al-Marīsī in which he presses the case for affirming the divine attributes; remaining silent about them is closer to the way of the early generations, both ancient and recent.

242 – See Kitāb al-Naqd, pp. 25, 79, 82, and 83.

85 – Abū Muḥammad al-Dārimī, compiler of the Sunan (181–255 AH)

Abū Muḥammad refrained from figurative interpretation and, at that time, believed in the attributes and in Allah’s transcendence above creation. He is the ḥāfiẓ Abū Muḥammad ʿAbdullāh ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Samarqandī al-Dārimī, and his book bears witness to this.

243 – That is, his well-known Sunan al-Dārimī, whose closing chapters include “Chapter on the Affair of the Hour and the Descent of the Lord, Exalted be He,” and “Chapter on the Beholding of Allah, Exalted be He.”

86 – Aḥmad ibn al-Furāt al-Rāzī (d. 258 AH)

This is the famous ḥāfiẓ Abū Masʿūd Aḥmad ibn al-Furāt al-Rāzī.

87 – Abū Isḥāq al-Jawzajānī (d. 259 AH)

He is the ḥāfiẓ Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm ibn Yaʿqūb al-Saʿdī al-Jawzajānī, author of several works.

88 – Imām Muslim (204–261 AH)

The eminent authority, Abū’l-Ḥusayn Muslim ibn al-Ḥajjāj, compiler of the Ṣaḥīḥ.

89 – Qāḍī Ṣāliḥ, son of Imām Aḥmad (201–290 AH)

He is the judge and imām Ṣāliḥ ibn Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal.