How do we reconcile the hadith of Ibn 'Umar: (Then He takes the earths with His left hand), with the hadith: (Both of my Lord's hands are right)?

The questioner : The hadith is number two thousand and eighty-four.

The Shaykh : What matters to us is...

The questioner : The hadith is from Ibn 'Umar, and in it: and... another hadith in "al-Sahihayn" - also - : .

The Shaykh : We have also spoken about this issue in more than one session, so we say: Allah - Mighty and Majestic - described Himself as having two hands, and it is obligatory to believe in that, and that one of His hands is right and the other is left. But in another hadith in al-Sahih, the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: . There is no contradiction between this hadith and the one before it; rather, this second hadith affirms a Quranic principle, which is His saying - Blessed and Exalted is He - : . So He - Blessed and Exalted is He -, in His being All-Hearing and All-Seeing, has nothing like Him. Likewise - Mighty and Majestic - in His having two hands, one right and the other left; both of my Lord's hands are right, unlike the created beings. The created beings are not described as having both hands right, because this is an attribute by which the Lord of the worlds is distinguished. So there is no contradiction requiring reconciliation, but rather this is an affirmation of the transcendence of Allah - Blessed and Exalted is He - from being likened to the created beings.