His saying, the Exalted: "Whatever they call upon other than Him from among anything"

The interpretation of this idol and this stone has preceded.

His saying, the Exalted: "And He is the Exalted in Might, the Wise"

Its chain of narration has preceded.

His saying, the Exalted: "And these examples We present to the people, but none will understand them except the knowledgeable"

17327 - ‘Ali ibn al-Husayn narrated to us, Ahmad ibn ‘Abd al-Rahman reported to us, my father reported to us, Abu Sinan reported to us, from ‘Amr ibn Murrah, he said: I have never passed by a verse in the Book of Allah that I do not understand except that it saddened me, because I heard Allah saying: "And these examples We present to the people, but none will understand them except the knowledgeable."

His saying, the Exalted: "Allah created the heavens and the earth"

17328 - Muhammad ibn Isma‘il al-Ahmasi narrated to us, ‘Ubayd ibn Ishaq reported to us, from ‘Amr ibn Thabit, from his father, from his grandfather al-‘Ibri, he said: I heard ‘Ali one day swearing, saying: "By the One who created the heaven from smoke and water."

17329 - My father narrated to us, Ahmad ibn ‘Abd Allah ibn Yunus and Dawud al-‘Attar reported to us, from al-Qasim ibn Abi Bazzah, he said: The heaven is not square, but rather it is arched; people see it as green.

17330 - My father narrated to us, Sa‘id ibn Abi Maryam reported to us, Ibn Lahi‘ah reported to us, from Yazid ibn Abi Habib, from Abu al-Khayr, he said: I heard Ka‘b saying: The heaven is whiter than milk.

17331 - Abu ‘Abd Allah al-Tahrani informed me in what he wrote to me, ‘Abd al-Razzaq reported to us, al-Thawri reported to us, he said: [There is] a rock beneath the earths; it has reached us that upon that rock is al-Khadir...

His saying, the Exalted: "And the earth in truth"

17332 - My father narrated to us, Abu Salih, the scribe of al-Layth, reported to us, al-Layth reported to me, Khalid ibn Yazid reported to me, from Sa‘id ibn Abi Hilal, from ‘Umar ibn ‘Abd Allah, the freed slave of Ghufrah, that Ka‘b said to ‘Umar ibn al-Khattab: Shall I not tell you about the loftiness of Allah, Blessed and Exalted is He? ‘Umar said: Yes. Then Ka‘b said: Indeed, Allah, Mighty and Majestic is He, placed a distance between the east and the west of five hundred years. In the east, there is nothing of animate beings—neither jinn, nor human, nor tree—and one hundred years in the west is of that same status, and three hundred is between that...