of this world, and that He becomes angry, is pleased, and speaks whenever He wills.”

I say: Everything he has transmitted from them is well-known and soundly preserved, except for the phrase “in His very Self.” That wording is his own addition, which he attributed to them by way of interpretation so as to distinguish the Throne from all other locations.

Abū Naṣr was a meticulous ḥāfiẓ. He narrated from the students of al-Maḥāmilī and their peers, and he is the transmitter of the musalsal ḥadith of primacy. He died in 444 AH.

302 – I say: The report referred to is the one already cited under number “4”: “Those who show mercy will be shown mercy by the All-Merciful….” I documented it there without the musalsal of primacy, for it is reported in that specific continuous form only in certain ḥadith booklets through chains from Abū Naṣr and others. If you wish, consult al-Majmūʿ 25 ⦗23/2–24/1⦘, al-Majmūʿ 51 ⦗105/1–9/2⦘, and al-Majmūʿ 52 ⦗131/1–132/2⦘.

150 – Abū ʿAmr al-Dānī (371–444 AH)

325 – The ḥāfiẓ and master of the Qurʾān reciters, Abū ʿAmr ʿUthmān ibn Saʿīd al-Dānī, author of al-Taysīr, said in his didactic poem on the articles of faith:

He spoke to Moses, His servant, with true speech,
and has ever been the Wise, the Sovereign.
His speech, His utterance, is eternal,
and He is above His majestic Throne.
Concerning His chosen Book we declare
that it is His revealed word,
sent down to His truthful Messenger—
neither created nor the Creator.

Al-Dānī died in Shawwāl 444 AH at Dāniyah in al-Andalus. The ruler himself walked before his bier, and the most senior shaykh who met him was Abū Muslim al-Kātib, the last of al-Baghawī’s pupils.

151 – Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr (368–463 AH)

326 – The eminent imam, ḥāfiẓ of the Maghrib, Abū ʿUmar Yūsuf ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAbd al-Barr al-Namrī al-Andalusī—author of al-Tamhīd and al-Istidhkār—said: