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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