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Abu Jaʿfar also related to me: I heard Yahya ibn Ayyub say, “One day we were sitting with Marwan ibn Muʿawiyah al-Fazari when a man asked him about the hadith on the Vision (seeing Allah). Marwan did not relate it to him, so the man said, ‘If you refuse to narrate it, then you are a Jahmi!’ Marwan replied, ‘You call me a Jahmi, when Jahm himself went forty days without even recognizing his Lord?’”}
وَحَدَّثَنِي أَبُو جَعْفَرٍ، قَالَ: سَمِعْتُ يَحْيَى بْنَ أَيُّوبَ، قَالَ: كُنَّا ذَاتَ يَوْمٍ عِنْدَ مَرْوَانَ بْنِ مُعَاوِيَةَ الْفَزَارِيِّ، فَسَأَلَهُ رَجُلٌ عَنْ حَدِيثِ الرُّؤْيَةِ فَلَمْ يُحَدِّثْهُ بِهِ، فَقَالَ لَهُ: إِنْ لَمْ تُحَدِّثْنِي بِهِ فَأَنْتَ جَهْمِيٌّ، فَقَالَ مَرْوَانُ: «أَتَقُولُ لِي جَهْمِيٌّ، وَجَهْمٌ مَكَثَ أَرْبَعِينَ يَوْمًا لَا يَعْرِفُ رَبَّهُ؟»