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21. Allah Glorifies Himself: Kitāb al-Tawḥīd (The Book on Monotheism) by Abū Bakr b. Khuzaymah

 

21. Allah Glorifies Himself

Allah shall glorify Himself when He will hold the earth in one of His hands and will roll the heavens up with His other hand, both hands of Allah, our Lord, are right hands, He has no left hand as it is a characteristic of the created things [to have left hands]. This is the eleventh ḥadīth proving hands for Allah.

95. (1) Al-Ḥasan b. Muḥammad al-Zaᶜfarānī → ᶜAffān b. Muslim → Ḥammād b. Salamah → Isḥāq b. ᶜAbd Allāh (Ibn Abī Ṭalḥah) → ᶜUbayd b. Miqsam → Ibn ᶜUmar:

One day the Prophet recited these verses on the pulpit: “They have not justly perceived the Might of Allāh such as is due to Him. On the Day of Judgment, the whole of the earth will be but His handful, and the heavens will be rolled up in His right hand, Glory to Him! High is He above the Partners they attribute to Him!” (Q: 39:67). The Prophet said—while he moved his fingers—that Allāh sings His greatness saying: “I am the Irresistible, the Supreme, the Sovereign, the Exalted in Might, the Beneficent.” The Prophet shivered and the pulpit shook with him to the extent that we thought it might fall with the Prophet over it.

….. (2) ᶜAbd al-Rahmān b. Bishr b. al-Ḥakam → Bahz b. Asad → Ḥammād (Ibn Salamah) → Isḥāq b. ᶜAbd Allah → ᶜUbayd Allah b. Miqsam → Ibn ᶜUmar:

The Prophet recited this verse on the pulpit: “And the heavens will be rolled up in His right hand” (Q: 39:67). The Prophet himself has stated that Allāh glorifies Himself and says: “I am the irresistible, the Supreme, the Sovereign, praising himself.” [Ibn ᶜUmar says]: “The Prophet continued repeating those words till I feared he might fall down.”

96. (3) Al-Hasan b. Muḥammad al-Zaᶜfrānī → Saᶜīd b. Manṣūr → Yaᶜqūb → Abū Ḥāzim → ᶜUbayd Allah b. Miqsam:

I looked at ᶜAbd Allāh b. ᶜUmar to know how he imitates the Prophet. He said: “Allāh takes the heavens and the earth in His mighty hands.” [While uttering these words], the Prophet squeezed his both hands and clutched them again. [He continued]: Allāh says, “I am the Merciful.” Sometimes later I saw that the lower part of the pulpit was shaking. I feared that it might bring the Prophet down with it.

97. (4) Yūnus b. ᶜAbd al-Aᶜlāᵓ → Ibn Wahb → Hishām (Ibn Saᶜd) → ᶜUbayd Allāh b. Miqsam → ᶜAbd Allāh b. ᶜUmar:

I saw the Prophet on the pulpit saying: “On the Day of Judgment the whole of the earth will be but His handful, and the heavens will be rolled up in His right hand” (Q 39:67). Then Allah says: “I am Allah, the Most Merciful, the Supreme. Where are the mighty [rulers] of the world?” [The Prophet continued narrating from Allah] till I was afraid he might fall with the pulpit.

Abū Bakr said: This is what Yūnus reported to us. There is no other narrator between Hishām b. Saᶜd and ᶜUbayd Allāh b. Miqsam.

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