Hadith 217

‘Al Tawheed’ – Ibn Al Mutawakkal, from Al Humeyri, from Ibn Isa, from Ibn Mahboub, from Yaqoub Al Saraj who said, ‘I said to Abu Abdullah-asws, ‘One of our companions claims that there is an image for Allah-azwj like the human being, and another said He-azwj is in an image of a red-headed cat’. Abu Abdullah-asws fell down in Sajdah, then raised his-asws head and said: ‘Glory be to Allah-azwj Who, there is nothing like Him-azwj, nor can the sights realise Him-azwj, nor can a knowledge encompass with Him-azwj. He-azwj does not beget because the child resembles its father, and He-azwj is not begotten, so He-azwj would resemble the one who was before Him-azwj, and there does not happen to be anyone from His-azwj creatures a match for Him-azwj. Exalted is He-azwj from the description of the ones besides Him-azwj, Lofty, Great’’. [152]
‘Rijal’ of Al Kashi – Muhammad Bin Masoud, from Ali Bin Muhammad Al Qummi, from Al Barqy, from Muhammad Bin Musa Ibn Isa, from Askeyb Bin Ahmad Al Kaysani, from Abdul Malik Bin Hisham Al Khayat who said, ‘I said to Abu Al-Hassan Al-Reza-asws, ‘May I be sacrificed for you-asws! Can I ask you-asws? ’ He-asws said: ‘Ask, O Jabaly, about what you want to ask me-asws? ’ I said, ‘May I be sacrificed for you-asws! Hisham Bin Salim claims that there is an image for Allah-azwj, and that Adam-as was Created like the Lord-azwj. He describes this and he describes this’ – and I gestured to my two sides, and hair of my head. And Yunus, freed slave of the family of Yaqteen, and Hisham Bin Al-Hakam claim that Allah-azwj is a thing, not like the things, and that the things appeared from Him-azwj, and He-azwj appears from the things, and they both claim that the proof of the thing is that it is said, ‘body’. So, He-azwj is a body, not like the bodies, a thing not like the things, proven, present without being lost nor becoming non-existent, outside from the two limits – limitation of the invalidation, and limitation of the resemblance. So, by which of the two words, should I be saying? ’
He (the narrator) said, ‘Abu Abdullah-asws said: ‘Intend this proof, and this one resembles his Exalted Lord-azwj with creatures. Exalted is Allah-azwj Who, there isn’t anything like Him-azwj, nor an example, nor an equal, nor a peer, nor is He-azwj with the descriptions of the creatures. Do not spay with the like of what Hisham Bin Salim says, and say with what the slave of the family of Yaqteen and his companion says’. He (the narrator) said, ‘I said, ‘Should I give the Zakat to one who opposes Hisham regarding the Tawheed? ’ He-asws said by (gesture of) his-asws head: ‘No’’. [153]