and the interpretation according to their differing schools of thought, from those who used it as evidence in a chapter of the sharīʿah, out of necessity that they would only use what was authentic to them, like Imām Mālik in "al-Muwaṭṭaʾ" (3/5-6), al-Shāfiʿī in "al-Umm" (5/266), Aḥmad in "Masāʾil ʿAbd Allāh" (101/363) and "Masāʾil Ṣāliḥ" (3/74/1374), al-Ṭaḥāwī in "Sharḥ al-Maʿānī" (1/258), Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr in "al-Istīʿāb", Ibn al-Jawzī in "Dafʿ Shubah al-Tashbīh", al-Nawawī in "al-Majmūʿ", Ibn al-Wazīr in "al-ʿAwāṣim wa-al-Qawāṣim" (1/379-380), and many others who cannot be enumerated, including some of the innovators known for their enmity towards the people of the sunnah, against whom several treatises have been written, like Shaykh al-Ṣābūnī; for he followed al-Ḥāfiẓ Ibn Kathīr in using this ḥadīth as evidence, mentioning it in two places (1/421 and 523) of his "Mukhtaṣar", which he committed to include only what is authentic from the ḥadīth! As for the extremists among the innovators and the Jahmites in this era; some of them have declared the weakening of this ḥadīth, and their denial of the authenticity of his saying (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam): "Where is Allāh?" and the slave girl's response: "In the sky!" At the forefront of these is Shaykh al-Kawtharī and his imitators, and I had responded to him in my book "Mukhtaṣar al-ʿUlū" (p. 82) in a manner that suffices from repeating it here, and the response was regarding this ḥadīth of Muʿāwiyah alone, before I was able to gather its preceding corroborations from Abū Hurayrah, Abū Juḥayfah, and Ibn ʿAbbās. Then, some brothers informed me of a fifth ḥadīth narrated by Ibn Shāhīn with his chain from ʿUkkāshah al-Ghanawī in "Asad al-Ghābah" and "al-Iṣābah", and its chain is good. Then I saw in "Talkhīṣ Ibn Ḥajar" (3/223) a sixth ḥadīth from Yaḥyá ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Ḥāṭib—who is trustworthy—mursal, narrated by Abū Aḥmad al-ʿAssāl in "al-Sunnah" through the route of Usāmah ibn Zayd, and in both ḥadīths: "Where is Allāh?" she said: "In the sky."