42- And by it, ʿAbd Allāh said: My father and ʿAbd al-Aʿlā bin Ḥammād al-Narsī narrated to me, they said: ʿAbd al-Raḥmān bin Mahdī narrated to us, Sufyān narrated to us, from Abū Isḥāq, from ʿAbd Allāh bin Khalīfa, from ʿUmar [may God be pleased with him], he said: When He, Mighty and Majestic, sits upon the Footstool, a creaking is heard from it like the creaking of a new saddle (1). [22/A]

43- And by it, ʿAbd Allāh said: My father narrated to me, Wakīʿ narrated to us - with the hadith of Isrāʾīl - from Abū Isḥāq, from ʿAbd Allāh bin Khalīfa, from ʿUmar [may God be pleased with him]: When the Lord, Mighty and Majestic, sits upon the Footstool.

A man - whom my father named - shuddered in the presence of Wakīʿ, so Wakīʿ became angry and said: We reached al-Aʿmash and Sufyān narrating these hadiths without rejecting them (2).

44- And by it, ʿAbd Allāh said: My father narrated to me, Abū al-Mughīra narrated to us, ʿAbda bint Khālid bin Maʿdān narrated to us, from her father Khālid that he said: Indeed, the Most Merciful, Mighty and Majestic, Transcendent is He, becomes heavy upon the bearers of the Throne at the beginning of the day when the polytheists rise, until when those who glorify Him rise, it is lightened for the bearers of the Throne (3).