Al-Haythamī said in Majmaʿ al-Zawāʾid (8/100): Al-Ṭabarānī narrated it from three sheikhs:
Jaʿfar b. Sulaymān al-Nawfalī, Aḥmad b. Rishdīn al-Miṣrī, and Aḥmad b. Dāwūd al-Makkī. Aḥmad b. Rishdīn is Da'if (Weak), and the [other] two I do not know, while the rest of its narrators are the narrators of the Sahih (Authentic). End quote.
This is what he said! However, Aḥmad b. Dāwūd was declared reliable by Ibn Yūnus in Tārīkh Miṣr (Obituaries/282 of al-Dhahabī's Tārīkh).
e. Aḥmad b. al-Ḥusayn al-Raqqī.
From him Abū Bakr al-Khallāl, mentioned by Abū Yaʿlā in Ibṭāl al-Taʾwīlāt (179 and 183).
Its wording is: "When God finished His creation, He established Himself over His Throne, lay back, placed one of His legs over the other, and said: 'It is not befitting for a human.'"
Al-Dhahabī said in Al-ʿUluww (110): Its narrators are reliable.
Ibn al-Qayyim said in Ijtimāʿ al-Juyūsh (pp. 107-108): Al-Khallāl narrated in the book Al-Sunna with a Sahih (Authentic) chain of transmission according to the condition of al-Bukhārī, from Qatāda b. al-Nuʿmān, may God be pleased with him, who said: I heard the Messenger of God, peace and blessings of God be upon him, say: "When God finished His creation, He established Himself over His Throne." End quote.
I say: The relevant evidence from it has already been mentioned in the narration of al-Khallāl.
f. Muḥammad b. Isḥāq al-Ṣāghānī.
It was narrated from him by al-Ḥasan b. Muḥammad al-Khallāl, mentioned by Abū Yaʿlā in Ibṭāl al-Taʾwīlāt (182). Abū Muḥammad al-Khallāl said: This is a hadith whose chain of transmission consists entirely of reliable narrators, and despite their reliability, they are upon the condition of the two Sahihs, Muslim and al-Bukhārī. Ibṭāl al-Taʾwīlāt (p. 226).
Al-Bayhaqī narrated it in Al-Asmāʾ wa-al-Ṣifāt (761); however, he said: This is a rejected (munkar) hadith!
I say: This is among what his being an Ash'arite dictated to him, and Ibn al-Qayyim, may Allah have mercy on him, refuted him in Al-Ṣawāʿiq (4/1527), as will follow.
It is narrated by Ibn al-Aṣfar, from Ibrāhīm al-Ḥizāmī, from Muḥammad b. Fulayḥ, from his father, from Sālim Abū al-Naḍr, from Saʿīd b. Yasār Abū al-Ḥubāb, with it. =
