5- Ibn Jarīr, may Allah have mercy on him, said in the Tafsir of the Verse of the Footstool (3/10): "However, the most appropriate Interpretation of the verse is what has come in the report from the Messenger of God, peace and blessings of God be upon him." Then he cited the hadith of Ibn Khalīfa with its chains of transmission.

And Ibn Kathīr, may Allah have mercy on him, said in al-Tafsīr (1/681): "Ibn Jarīr relied on the hadith of ʿAbd Allāh b. Khalīfa from ʿUmar, may God be pleased with him, regarding that." End quote.

6- Ibn al-Zāghūnī said in some of his works: "I have cited it in other than this book in a manner that leaves no way to repel or reject it except through stubbornness, and there is no discrediting its authenticity except through arrogance." End quote. Al-Dashtī transmitted it under number (37).

7- Al-Ḍiyāʾ al-Maqdisī authenticated it by including it in his Sahih (Authentic) collection, al-Mukhtāra, as previously mentioned.

8- Al-Dashtī followed it up by saying: "(It is an authentic hadith according to the condition of al-Bukhārī and Muslim)."

See the rest of his statement; it is authentic, but the condition is not authentic, as previously explained.

9- Shaykh al-Islām Ibn Taymiyya, may Allah have mercy on him.

He said in Majmūʿ al-Fatāwā (16/434): "The well-known hadith of ʿAbd Allāh b. Khalīfa which is narrated from ʿUmar, may God be pleased with him, from the Prophet, peace and blessings of God be upon him, was narrated by Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad b. ʿAbd al-Wāḥid al-Maqdisī in al-Mukhtāra. A group of the people of hadith reject it due to its inconsistency, as Abū Bakr al-Ismāʿīlī, Ibn al-Jawzī, and others did; however, the majority of the people of the Sunna accepted it." End quote.

I say: Al-Ismāʿīlī and Ibn al-Jawzī are among the people of Interpretation and negation, as is not hidden.

10- Al-Dhahabī said in al-ʿArsh (2/119): "This is a preserved hadith from the hadith of Abū Isḥāq al-Sabīʿī, the Imam of the Kufans in his time. He heard from more than one of the Companions, and they included his hadiths in The two Sahihs. He died in the year one hundred and twenty-seven. He was alone in narrating this hadith from ʿAbd Allāh b. Khalīfa, who is among the early Successors (Tabi'in); we do not know his condition in terms of Discrediting or Attestation. However, Abū Isḥāq al-Sabīʿī narrated this hadith affirming it, like his other hadiths on the Attributes. It was likewise narrated by Sufyān al-Thawrī, and it was narrated by Abū Aḥmad al-Zubayrī, Yaḥyā b. Abī Bukayr, and Wakīʿ, from Isrāʾīl.

And Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ʿAbd Allāh b. Aḥmad b. Ḥanbal recorded it in his book al-Sunna wa-al-Radd