246 - Yahya ibn Abi Talib informed us, saying: Abu Bakr ibn Abi Shaybah narrated to us, saying: Muhammad ibn Fudayl narrated to us, from Layth, from Mujahid regarding the verse: {It may be that your Lord will raise you to a Praised Station} [Al-Isra: 79], he said: "He will seat him with Him upon the Throne." Abu Bakr ibn Abi Talib said: Whoever rejects this has rejected [what has come from] Allah Azza wa Jall, and whoever denies the virtue of the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, has disbelieved in Allah the Almighty.

247 - Ahmad ibn Asram al-Muzani informed me of this hadith, and he said: "Whoever rejects this is accused [of heresy] regarding Allah and His Messenger, and in our view, he is a disbeliever. And [whoever] claims that whoever says this is a Dualist (Thanawi), has claimed that the scholars and the Tabi'un were Dualists; and whoever says this [that they are Dualists] is a Zindiq (heretic) who is to be executed."