375—ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Abī Ḥātim mentioned it, saying: My father narrated to us: ʿAlī ibn Ṣāliḥ ibn Jābir al-Anmāṭī narrated to me: ʿAlī ibn ʿĀṣim narrated to us. Ḥ.

376—He said: And my father narrated to us: al-Ṣahbī, the paternal uncle of ʿAlī ibn ʿĀṣim, narrated to us, from ʿAlī ibn ʿĀṣim, from ʿImrān ibn Ḥudayr, from ʿIkrimah, who said: Ibn Abbas was at a funeral. When the deceased had been placed in his grave-niche, a man stood and said, “O Allah, Lord of the Quran, forgive him.” Ibn Abbas sprang toward him and said, “Stop! The Quran is from Him.” ⦗257⦘ Al-Ṣahbī added in his narration that Ibn Abbas said: “The Quran is the speech of Allah; it is not created. It came forth from Him, and to Him it shall return.”