• (1) In the author's chain of transmission is Abū al-ʿIzz Aḥmad bin Kādish, who has been criticized; however, al-Qāḍī Abū Yaʿlā followed him in Ibṭāl al-Taʾwīlāt (2/492), narrating it from his sheikh Abū Ṭālib al-ʿUshārī—who is reliable—from al-Dāraquṭnī.

Thus, its attribution to al-Dāraquṭnī, may Allah have mercy on him, is authentic, so no attention is paid to those who declared it weak, such as al-Kawtharī the Jahmī, and al-Albānī in al-Ḍaʿīfa (2/256), for he said: (... Among what is rejected in this chapter is what Abū Muḥammad al-Dashtī narrated in Ithbāt Al-Ḥadd, then he mentioned it, and said: This is a chain of transmission that is not authentic, because of this Abū al-ʿIzz... etc.

Among those who affirmed these verses for al-Dāraquṭnī, may Allah have mercy on him, are:

1- al-Dashtī.

2- al-Dhahabī in his book al-ʿArsh (258), and al-ʿUluww (513).

3- Ibn al-Qayyim in Badāʾiʿ al-Fawāʾid (4/49), and al-Nūniyya (p. 103), saying:

And al-Dāraquṭnī, the Imam, affirms the reports in this chapter without cowardice.

And he has a poem that includes this, and in it, I am not one to deny what is narrated.

And a tribulation occurred because of that in his time from the sect of negation and aggression.

And God is the Supporter of His religion and His Book; this is His ruling since the two factions existed.

4- And Ibn Saḥmān in his book al-Ḍiyāʾ al-Shāriq fī Radd Shubuhāt al-Mādhiq al-Māriq (2/68).

• (2) He points to the report of Mujāhid, may Allah have mercy on him, regarding the exegesis (tafsir) of His statement, the Exalted: {It may be that your Lord will raise you to a praised station} [al-Isrāʾ: 79]. He said: He will seat him with Him on the Throne.

al-Ṭabarī narrated it in his Tafsīr (15/145), and al-Khallāl in al-Sunna (1/209-260).

And he extensively mentioned its routes and narrations.

It is an authentic report; the people of the Sunna agreed upon receiving it with acceptance, and using it as evidence against the Jahmiyya, and they condemned anyone who rejected it, did not accept it, or discredited it.