[Al-Muzzammil: 18], he said: "It is weighed down by Him, heavily burdened."

[Narrated by al-Bukhārī in his Ṣaḥīḥ in suspended form in the Tafsir of Sūrat al-Muzzammil, and by ʿAbdullāh bin Aḥmad in al-Sunna (1014), and its chain of transmission is Sahih (Authentic)].

6- Mujāhid, may Allah have mercy on him, said in the Tafsir of His Almighty's statement: {The heaven will break apart therefrom}: "It is weighed down by Him."

And in another wording: "It breaks apart from the heaviness of its Lord, Exalted be He."

[Narrated by al-Ṭabarī in his Tafsir (35282), and Ibn Abī Ḥātim in his Tafsir (as in Sharḥ al-Ṣaḥīḥ by Ibn Ḥajar (8/675)), and its chain of transmission is Hasan (Good)].

7- And from ʿIkrima, something similar.

[Narrated by al-Ṭabarī in his Tafsir (35285), and ʿAbdullāh bin Aḥmad in al-Sunna (1012)].

8- And from Qatāda, something similar.

[Narrated by al-Ṭabarī in his Tafsir (35287), and ʿAbdullāh bin Aḥmad in al-Sunna (1013)].

I say: And upon this Tafsir are most of the Predecessors (Salaf), as:

9- Abū al-Muẓaffar al-Samʿānī, may Allah have mercy on him, said in his Tafsir (6/83): "It has been reported from many of the Predecessors (Salaf) that His statement: {break apart therefrom}: meaning, by Allah, and that is His descent on the Day of Resurrection to judge between creation, without [asking] how." End quote.

10- Muḥammad bin Isḥāq said—in describing the bearers of the Throne: "Among what the people of the first Book described them with was an attribute we did not deny, due to our knowledge of the heaviness upon them from His greatness..." [Narrated by Abū al-Shaykh in al-ʿAẓama (474)].

11- Al-Karajī al-Qaṣṣāb, may Allah have mercy on him, in his Tafsir Nukat al-Qurʾān (4/86).

12- Al-Qāḍī Abū Yaʿlā said: "Know that it is not impossible to take the report upon its apparent meaning, that His heaviness occurs by the Essence of the Most Merciful, since that is not something that renders His attributes impossible..." [Bayān Talbīs al-Jahmiyya (1/574)].

13- Ibn Taymiyya, may Allah have mercy on him, said in Bayān Talbīs al-Jahmiyya (3/268) while speaking about the aforementioned report of Kaʿb al-Aḥbār: "And this report, even if it is the narration of Kaʿb, it is possible that it is from the knowledge of the People of the Book, and it is possible that it is from what he received from the Companions,