they deny them—by weakening them—or nullify them—by interpreting them—as they did with the verses of attributes such as coming, elevation, and establishment; imitating al-Kawtharī and his likes from the Jahmiyyah. May Allāh deal with them as they deserve! *

- (When one of you slaughters, let him do it swiftly). It was narrated by Aḥmad (2/108): Qutaybah ibn Saʿīd narrated to us: Ibn Lahīʿah narrated from ʿUqayl, from Ibn Shihāb, from Sālim ibn ʿAbd Allāh, from his father, that the Messenger of Allāh (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) commanded the sharpening of knives and that they be hidden from the animals, and when slaughtering... the ḥadīth. It was also narrated by Ibn ʿAdī in "al-Kāmil" (4/148), and through him by al-Bayhaqī in "Shuʿab al-Īmān" (7/483/11074) through another chain from Qutaybah ibn Saʿīd with it, except that he said: "ʿUqayl narrated to us...", so Ibn Lahīʿah explicitly stated the narration with them. Ibn ʿAdī mentioned it among the ḥadīths he listed in the biography of Ibn Lahīʿah (pp. 144-154), and likewise, al-Dhahabī mentioned it in "al-Mīzān", and Ibn ʿAdī said at the end of the biography: "His ḥadīth is ḥasan, and he is among those whose ḥadīth is written." I say: The settled opinion of the researchers is that his ḥadīth is ḥasan in supporting narrations; except for what is from the narration of the ʿAbādilah, among them ʿAbd Allāh ibn Wahb, which is ṣaḥīḥ as some of the imams have stated. Then it became clear to me that among the narrations of the ʿAbādilah is the narration of Qutaybah ibn Saʿīd from him, for Imām Aḥmad said to him: "Your ḥadīths from Ibn Lahīʿah are authentic."