How do we reconcile the saying of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) regarding Allah the Exalted, "Both His hands are right," with what is reported in Sahih al-Jami'?

Shaykh Muhammad Nasir al-Din al-Albani

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The questioner : Abu 'Ammar asked me a question from my shaykh regarding the hadith:

Both His hands are right

كلتا يديه يمين

And there is a hadith in "Sahih al-Jami'":

That Allah (Mighty and Majestic) takes a handful with His right hand and a handful with His left hand

أن الله - عز وجل - يأخذ قبضة بيمينه وقبضة بشماله

; how do we reconcile the two hadiths?

The Shaykh : There is no contradiction;

Both His hands are right

كلتا يديه يمين

is an affirmation of the verse:

There is nothing like unto Him

لَيْسَ كَمِثْلِهِ شَيْءٌ

[Ash-Shuraa 42:11]

.

The questioner : How, Shaykh?

The Shaykh : His saying:

Both His hands are right

كلتا يديه يمين

is an affirmation of His saying:

There is nothing like unto Him

لَيْسَ كَمِثْلِهِ شَيْءٌ

[Ash-Shuraa 42:11]

.

The questioner: Yes.

The Shaykh : It means that what is known among humans is right and left. So when Allah speaks of Himself, saying that He has a right and a left, and then comes after that to say:

both of the Hands of my Lord are right

كلتا يدي ربِّي يمين

Jami` at-Tirmidhi 3367Hasan (Darussalam)

, this is an affirmation that He is

There is nothing like unto Him

لَيْسَ كَمِثْلِهِ شَيْءٌ

[Ash-Shuraa 42:11]

in all His attributes, including the attribute of right and left. So you notice that the questions ask "How?" My brother, there is no "how" in the attributes, but this is the definitive answer to the matter.

The questioner : Glory be to Allah! My shaykh, the basis of obligation regarding the attributes of Allah must be such that there is no hadith in it... so that the Muslim does not enter into... .

The Shaykh : There is no god but Allah.

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