Taʾsīs al-Jahmiyya*, Minhāj al-Sunna, and Majmūʿ al-Fatāwā, al-Mizzī in Tahdhīb al-Kamāl, al-Dhahabī in al-ʿArsh, al-Haythamī in al-Majmaʿ, and others among the authors of compilations who used it as evidence, received it with the best acceptance, and did not subject it to criticism or rejection.

And the quote of Ibn Taymiyya, May Allah have mercy on him, has already preceded in the Introduction (p. 91) regarding a report by Zayd b. Aslam, May Allah have mercy on him, concerning the preference of the righteous among humans over the angels: "...And the least that is in these reports is: that the early Predecessors (Salaf) used to transmit them among themselves... and none of them disagreed regarding that; rather, the disagreement only appeared after desires scattered their people, and opinions diverged, for that was like something settled among them." End quote.

And the statement of Ibn al-Qayyim, May Allah have mercy on him, regarding the hadith of Jābir, May God be pleased with him, in affirming the Voice for God, Exalted is He: "And the imams of Islam narrated it in the books of the Sunna, and the Predecessors (Salaf) continued to narrate it, and it was never heard from any of the imams of the Sunna that he rejected it, until the Jahmiyya came and rejected it, and those who followed them in that proceeded upon their tracks..." End quote [Mukhtaṣar al-Ṣawāʿiq (3/1290)].

I say: And the same is said right here.

• Mentioning some of their statements:

1- Wakīʿ: He narrated the hadith of ʿAbd Allāh b. Khalīfa, and a man in his presence shuddered, so Wakīʿ became angry and said: "We met al-Aʿmash and Sufyān narrating these hadiths without rejecting them." [See: No. (34)]

2-3- Aḥmad b. Ḥanbal, and his son ʿAbd Allāh, may Allah have mercy on them both.

ʿAbd Allāh, May Allah have mercy on him, said in al-Sunna (p. 264) and it will come here (38): My father was asked about what was narrated regarding the Footstool (Kursī), and the sitting of the Lord upon it, majestic is His praise. He said: "I saw my father authenticating these hadiths... and adopting them, and he gathered them in a book, and narrated them to us."

Then ʿAbd Allāh mentioned these hadiths, and the first of them was this hadith of ʿAbd Allāh b. Khalīfa.

4- Al-Dārimī, May Allah have mercy on him, in al-Naqḍ (p. 233) cited the hadith then said: "So here it is, O Marīsī, take it as well-known and transmitted." End quote.

I say: And this is the utmost form of using it as evidence.