And among the Hadith masters who narrated it are: ʿAbd Allāh bin al-Imām Aḥmad bin Ḥanbal, Abū Bakr Ibn Abī ʿĀṣim, and Abū al-Qāsim al-Ṭabarānī.
And Abū ʿAbd Allāh bin Mandah and Abū Nuʿaym cited it in "Maʿrifat al-Ṣaḥāba".
And it was narrated from Shaddād bin Aws [May God be pleased with him] - as well - as Marfu'.
And it was narrated from ʿAbd Allāh bin ʿAbbās and Kaʿb bin ʿUjra [May God be pleased with them] as Mawquf. And from Kaʿb al-Aḥbār - as well -.
And it was narrated from ʿAbd Allāh bin Masʿūd [May God be pleased with him] regarding the statement of God Almighty: {The Most Merciful rose over the Throne} [Ṭā-Hā: 5], with this meaning.
And the narrators of this hadith from the route of Qatāda and Shaddād [May God be pleased with them both], most of them are from the narrators of the Sahih (Authentic) (1).
It is narrated by Ibrāhīm al-Ḥizāmī, from Muḥammad b. Fulayḥ, from his father, from Saʿīd b. al-Ḥārith, from ʿUbayd b. Ḥunayn, with it.
a. Ibn Abī ʿĀṣim in Al-Sunna (580), and by way of him Abū Nuʿaym in Al-Maʿrifa (5752), and Ibn Mandah in Al-Maʿrifa (2/132/1 as in the referencing of Al-Sunna by Ibn Abī ʿĀṣim); however, "Fulayḥ b. Sulaymān" was dropped from the chain of transmission, and the correct view is to establish it.
b, c, d. Jaʿfar b. Sulaymān, Aḥmad b. Rishdīn, and Aḥmad b. Dāwūd.
It was narrated from the three of them by al-Ṭabarānī in Al-Muʿjam al-Kabīr (19/13) (18), and from him by Abū Nuʿaym in Al-Maʿrifa (5752). =
