45- And by it, ʿAbd Allāh said: My father narrated to me, Yaḥyā bin Saʿīd narrated to us, Ibn ʿAjlān narrated to us, Saʿīd - meaning: al-Maqburī - narrated to me, from Abū Hurayra [may God be pleased with him], he said: The Messenger of God, peace and blessings of God be upon him, said [22/B]: "If one of you strikes, let him avoid the face, and let him not say: May God make your face ugly, and the face of whoever resembles your face; for indeed, God, Mighty and Majestic, created Adam in His image" (1).
and a narration of the People of the Book for which we have no witness that repels it, nor confirms it, nor denies it. Thus, these Imams mentioned in its chain of transmission are among the most illustrious Imams, and they and others have narrated it, and they did not deny what is in it of his statement: ('from the heaviness of the Compeller above them'). So if this statement were objectionable in the religion of Islam according to them, they would not have narrated it in this manner..." End quote.
14- The statement of Ibn al-Qayyim in al-Nūniyya (pp. 99-100):
"And in Sūrat al-Shūrā and in Muzzammil / is a great secret, its matter is of great significance.
Regarding the mention of the breaking apart of the heaven, so whoever desires / knowledge of it, then it is near and close at hand.
The later generations did not permit its transmission / out of cowardice and weakness in Faith concerning it.
Rather, the early generations said it, the knights of / Islam, they are the commanders of this matter.
And Muḥammad bin Jarīr al-Ṭabarī in / his Tafsir, both opinions were related by him."
