Hadith 51

And from him, from Ali Bin Ahmad Al Daqqaq, from Muhammad Bin Ja’far Al Asady, from Muhammad Bin Ismail Al Barmaky, from Al-Husayn Bin Al-Hassan, from his father, from Hanan Bin Sadeyr who said, ‘I asked Abu Abdullah-asws about the Throne and the Chair. He-asws said: ‘For the Throne there are a lot of different descriptions. For it, regarding every means and making (placing) in the Quran, there is a description upon an individuality. His-azwj Words: Lord of the Magnificent Throne’ [23: 86], He-azwj is Saying: ‘The Mighty King’. And His-azwj Words: The Beneficent, Evened upon the Throne [20: 5], He-azwj is saying He-azwj is Encompassing upon the kingdom. And this kingdom, is the how-ness regarding the things. Then the Throne in the connection, is individual from the Chair, because these are two door from the greatest doors of the unseen, and these are both together, unseen, and they are coupled in the unseen, because the Chair, it is the apparent door from the unseen which, the change of Decision emerges from, and from it are the things, all of them, while the Throne, it is the esoteric door in which is found knowledge of the ‘How’, and ‘The coming into being’, and ‘The pre-determination’, and the ‘Limit’, and the ‘Where’, and the Desire’, and description of the Will, and knowledge of the wordings, and the movement, and the leaving, and know of the return, and the change of Decision. So these are two doors regarding the knowledge because the Angel of the Throne is besides the Angel of the Chair, it’s Knowledge is more unseen than knowledge of the Chair. So, from that, He-azwj Said: Lord of the Magnificent Throne’ [23: 86] – i. e. His-azwj Attributes are mightier than the description of the Chair, and they are coupled in that’. I said, ‘May I be sacrificed for you-asws! Why did the vicinity of the Chair become a merit? ’
He-asws said: ‘It came to be in it’s vicinity because the knowledge of how-ness is in it, and in it is the apparent from the doors of the Change of Decision, and its where-ness, and a limit of it’s being joined up, and its splitting. So these two are neighbours, one of them carrying its counterpart in the receptacle, and with similar to the usage of the scholars and their pointing upon the truthfulness of their claims, because Allah is Gentle with His servants. He Graces one He so Desires to, and He is the Strong, the Mighty [42: 19]. From the different descriptions of the Throne, Allah-azwj Blessed and Exalted Said: Lord of the Throne’ [23: 86], Lord-azwj of the Oneness, from what they are ascribing [6: 100]. And a people were describing Him-azwj as being with hands, so they said, ‘The Hand of Allah is tied up! ’ [5: 64]. And a people described Him-azwj as being with the legs, so they said, ‘He-azwj Places His-azwj Leg upon a rock of Bayt Al Maqdis, an