Is it true that Imam al-Bukhari fell into figurative interpretation in his exegesis of the saying of Allah the Exalted?

The questioner : May Allah increase you in favor, O Shaykh. I have approximately several questions, but before I begin, I will say that yesterday I mentioned an issue, or I overlooked mentioning this issue, which is when I said that Imam al-Bukhari headed a chapter in his Sahih regarding the meaning of the saying of Allah the Exalted: He said: "except His dominion." Explicitly, I quoted this statement from a book titled *A Analytical Study of Ibn Hajar's Creed* written by Ahmad 'Isam al-Katib. I believed that this man, if Allah wills, quoted it correctly, and I still say that his quotation may be correct. But I want to read his words in this book. He says: "... The heading of al-Bukhari for Surat al-Qasas has already been mentioned: except His dominion, and it is said: except what I desire for the face of Allah. And regarding his saying 'except His dominion,' he said: The Hafiz, in the narration of al-Nasafi, and Ma'mar mentioned it. And this Ma'mar is Abu 'Ubaydah ibn al-Muthanna. And this is his statement in his book *Majaz al-Qur'an*, but with the wording 'except He is...' " So, of course, I went back to *al-Fath* itself and did not find al-Bukhari's heading with this matter. And I went back to *Sahih al-Bukhari* without *al-Fath* and also did not find this statement from Imam al-Bukhari. But here, he seems to indicate that this matter exists in the narration of al-Nasafi from Imam al-Bukhari. So what do you know of your answer?

The Shaykh : My answer was presented previously!

The questioner : Yesterday.

The Shaykh : Yes.

The questioner : Of course, I wanted to clarify this for fear that I would fall into speaking ill of Imam al-Bukhari...

The Shaykh : May Allah reward you with good. You heard from me the doubt that al-Bukhari would say this word, because what is it? That is, His dominion, my brother. This is what a Muslim and a believer says. And I also said that if this exists, it may be in some copies. So the answer was presented previously. And you, may Allah reward you with good, now with this statement you mentioned that there is not in al-Bukhari such a figurative interpretation, which is the very denial of the divine attributes. Please proceed.

Another questioner : Our Shaykh, on this, it seems to exist in *al-Fath* in a phrase like this. And I recall that once I reviewed this phrase in the argumentation of one of them, so it seems I found something like this type of argumentation, meaning it exists, and it is in some copies. But I said to him: There is no "except Allah" and "except the creations of Allah the Exalted," there is nothing else like this. So if everything is perishing except His Face, that is, except His dominion, then what is the thing that is perishing?!

The Shaykh : This, my brother, does not need argumentation regarding its invalidity, but the important thing is that we purify Imam al-Bukhari from interpreting this verse, and he is an Imam in hadith and in the attributes, and he is a Salafi in creed, and praise be to Allah. It is others.