and affirming them as they came, until this group appeared, so they rejected them all, declared them ignorant, and opposed their command; may God oppose them." End quote.
He, may Allah have mercy on him, said in his Risāla ilā Ahl Makka (p. 28): "And whatever I do not mention anything about is sound." End quote.
Al-Dhahabī said in al-ʿArsh (2/28): "Abū Dāwūd and others narrated it in (The Refutation of the Jahmiyya), with a Hasan (Good) chain of transmission according to him, from the hadith of Muḥammad b. Isḥāq b. Yasār." End quote.
Ibn al-Qayyim said similarly, as preceded shortly.
Ibn Khuzayma (d. 311 AH), may Allah have mercy on him, in al-Tawḥīd (1/231) (Chapter on the Elevation of our Creator, the Most High, the Supreme).
Abū ʿAwāna (d. 316 AH), may Allah have mercy on him, in his Ṣaḥīḥ (2517).
Ibn Manda (d. 395 AH), may Allah have mercy on him, said in al-Tawḥīd (3/188): "It is a Sahih (Authentic), continuous chain of transmission according to the criteria of Abū ʿĪsā and al-Nasāʾī." End quote.
Abū Naṣr ʿUbayd Allāh b. Saʿīd al-Sijzī (d. 444 AH), may Allah have mercy on him, said in his treatise al-Radd ʿalā man Ankara al-Ḥarf wa-al-Ṣawt (p. 124) after mentioning the hadith of Jubayr b. Muṭʿim, may God be pleased with him, and other hadiths: "These meanings and routes are accepted and preserved." End quote.
Muḥammad b. ʿAlī al-Karajī al-Qaṣṣāb, may Allah have mercy on him, in his Tafsir Nukat al-Qurʾān (4/86).
Al-Ḥusayn b. Masʿūd al-Baghawī (d. 516 AH), may Allah have mercy on him, in Sharḥ al-Sunna (1/175).
Ibn al-Zāghūnī, and he has a monograph on its authentication.
Al-Dashtī (d. 665 AH), may Allah have mercy on him.
Ibn Taymiyya (d. 728 AH), may Allah have mercy on him, said in Bayān Talbīs al-Jahmiyya (3/254):
"This hadith might be criticized by some of those occupied with hadith in support of the Jahmiyya, even if they do not understand the reality of their statement and the negation of attributes it entails, or out of finding the mention of (the creaking) repugnant, as Abū al-Qāsim the historian [meaning: Ibn ʿAsākir] did, and they argue that it is singularly narrated
