The Shaykh’s remarks on the hadith: “Allah, Blessed and Exalted is He, descends every night to the lowest heaven,” the hadith.

The Shaykh : The clear example for me is the hadith agreed upon by al-Bukhari and Muslim, narrated betweenThe Shaykh : him and the one that came from ten or more of the Companions of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) with the wording What is it?

The questioner :

The Shaykh: Is there not such and such, is there not such and such The point is that the hadith came in this form through mass-transmitted chains It came in a narration reported by al-Nasa'i in *al-Sunan al-Kubra* that does not say but rather and it mentions the rest, but it does not mention the divine descent or the divine speech. This narration is not authentic from a hadith perspective because it contradicts dozens of authentic chains. So, the two tools used by the people of innovation and figurative interpretation to destroy the correct creed are: first, ta'wil (figurative interpretation), which shifts the true meaning to a metaphorical one; and second, invalidating authentic hadiths by not acting upon them or using them as evidence, claiming that they are ahad reports. I said earlier, and this is very necessary, that you must be clear and knowledgeable about the argument for the invalidity of distinguishing between ahad reports and mass-transmitted reports regarding creed. Because with this distinction, they acknowledge that ahad reports in matters of rulings must be acted upon, but in matters of creed, it is not permissible to act upon them. I say this is contrary to the position of the Salaf.