113- Ḥadith of Muqātil ibn Ḥayyān, on the authority of al-Ḍaḥḥāk:
“He is upon His Throne, while His knowledge is with them …” ⦗133⦘

114- From Ṣadaqah: I heard Sulaymān al-Taymī say, “If I were asked, ‘Where is Allah?’ I would reply, ‘In the heaven.’” ⦗133⦘

115- ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Muḥammad ibn Ḥabīb: I was present with Khālid ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Qasrī. ⦗133⦘

116- On the authority of al-Sarī ibn Yaḥyā: Khālid al-Qasrī delivered a sermon to us and said … ⦗134⦘

A record of what the leading imams declared when Jahm and his doctrine first appeared ⦗135⦘

1- The statement of Abū Ḥanīfah, scholar of Iraq ⦗135⦘
2- Ibn Jurayj, shaykh of the Sacred Precinct and mufti of the Ḥijāz ⦗137⦘
3- al-Awzāʿī, scholar of the people of Syria ⦗137⦘
4- Muqātil ibn Ḥayyān, scholar of Khurāsān ⦗138⦘
5- Sufyān al-Thawrī, the foremost scholar of his age ⦗139⦘
6- Mālik, Imām of the Abode of Emigration ⦗140⦘
7- al-Layth ibn Saʿd, scholar of Egypt ⦗143⦘
8- Salām ibn Abī Muṭīʿ, among the leading scholars of Baṣrah ⦗143⦘
9- Ḥammād ibn Salamah, imam of the people of Baṣrah ⦗144⦘
10- ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn al-Mājishūn, mufti of Madinah ⦗144⦘
11- Ḥammād ibn Zayd of Baṣrah, the ḥāfiẓ, one of the luminaries ⦗146⦘
12- Ibn Abī Laylā, judge of Kūfah ⦗147⦘
13- Imām Jaʿfar al-Ṣādiq, master of the ʿAlids ⦗148⦘
14- Salām, Qur’an-reciter of Baṣrah ⦗148⦘
15- Shurayk the judge, one of the eminent scholars ⦗149⦘
16- Muḥammad ibn Isḥāq, foremost authority on the Prophet’s campaigns ⦗150⦘
17- Misʿar ibn Kidām, one of the imams ⦗150⦘

A subsequent tier, following those who have just been mentioned ⦗151⦘