52- And Abū [ʿAbd Allāh] Muḥammad [bin] ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq bin Khalaf bin ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq informed us, Abū Saʿīd bin Abī Muḥammad known as (Āmūsān) informed us - by License -, Yaḥyā bin [26/b] ʿAbd al-Wahhāb bin Abī ʿAbd Allāh bin Mandah informed us, Abū al-Walīd al-Ḥasan bin Muḥammad al-Darbandī informed us, Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad bin Jaʿfar informed us, Abū Muḥammad al-Ḥasan bin Rashīq informed us, al-ʿAbbās bin Muḥammad bin al-ʿAbbās al-Baṣrī informed us, Abū ʿĀṣim Khushaysh bin Aṣram narrated to us, Ibrāhīm bin al-Ḥakam narrated to us, my father narrated to me, Abū ʿAmr al-Baṣrī narrated to me, Maʿbad narrated to me, from Anas, May God be pleased with him, the Messenger of God, Peace and blessings of God be upon him, narrated to us, he said: "They will come to me until I walk before them until we reach the gate of Paradise, then I will seek for it to be opened, and permission will be granted to me; then I will enter upon my Lord, and I will find Him sitting on the Chair of Might, so I will fall down prostrating to Him" (1). [25/a]
[Ṭabaqāt al-Ḥanābila (2/30)]. No one delved into the chapters of the Sunna and creed and departed from the creed of the Predecessors (Salaf) and the people of the Sunna except that he fell in their estimation, even if he was a Hadith master with an abundance of Narration and Books. Imam al-Dārimī, may Allah have mercy on him, said: "No one among those who used to be mentioned delved into this Chapter except that he fell. He mentioned al-Karābīsī, who fell until he was no longer mentioned. There was a man with us who was a Hadith master and insightful, whom Sulaymān b. Ḥarb and the sheikhs in Basra used to honor, and he was my companion and comrade—meaning, he spoke concerning it—so he fell." [Dhamm al-Kalām by al-Anṣārī (1215)]
