This explanation and its like establish that Abu haneefah and his early
companions and the verifiers of the later scholars are with the (rest of
the ) Salaf in believing that Allaah is above His creation and that he
is above the heavens.(This belief) is shown clearly by the authentic
ahaadeeth such as the hadeeth of the slave girl and it is stated in the
clear aayaahs such as His,the Glorious and Most High's saying:
"Do you feel secure that He is above the
sky,will not cause you to be swalloed up by the earth when it shakes (as in the
earh quake)?
(Sooratul
Mulk)(67:16)
[7] Saheeh: Reported
by Abu Daawood,at-Tirmidhee ,Ahmad,Ibn Maajah and al-Haakim
and others from Abu Hurairah (rta) from the Prophet (sallallaahu `alaihi wasallam) .
It is reported by
Abu Daawodd (2/503-504), ad-Daarimee (2/241), Ahmad and al-Haakim (1/128),
who declared it Saheeh and adh-Dhahabee agreed from the hadeeth
of Muaawiyaah ibn Abee Sufyaan (ra) in marfoo' form.
It is reported
by Ibn Maajah (2/1322) from Awf ibn Maailik (ra) in marfoo form.
It
is declared Saheeh by our shaykh in Silsilatul-Ahaadeeth us-Saheehah (3/480)
and declared Saheeh by a number of the scholars,such as ash-Shatibee
in al-Istisaam (2/189-190) and muhammad ibn al-Wazeer in ar-Rawd-ul-Baasim
(2/115) and our Shaykh in Silsilatul-Ahaadeeth us-Saheehah
(no.203 and 204) and Ibn katheer in his tafseer of the sublime
Quraan (1/390) that it was strong and al-Haafidh Ib hajr declares it
hasan in Takhreej ul-Kashhaaf (p.63) saying, "And its isnaad is hasan".
The narration which al-Masoomee (ra) mentioned is
reported by at-Tirmidhee
(5/25) by way of Abd ur-Rahmaan ibn Ziyaad al-Ifreeqee,
the judge of Africa,who is weak on account of his
memory, as al-Haafidh says in at-Taqreeb. However it has a supporting narration
which brings it to the level of Hasan, which is reported
by al-'Uqailee in ad-Duafaa and at-Tabaranee in as-Sagheer (no.150) by way
of Abdullah ibn Sufyaan al-Madanee, from Yahya ibn Saeed
al-Ansaree from Anas (ra) in marfoo form. Therefore al-Haafidh
al-Iraqee indicates Hasan in al-Mughnee an Hamlil-Asfaar (3/199)
and it is declared Hasan by our Shaykh al-Albanee
(ha) in Saheeh ul-Jaami(5/80).
The Basis of Islaam is to Act upon the Book and the Sunnah
