The discussion regarding the hadith of the maidservant whom the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) asked, "Where is Allah?" and she replied, "In the sky."

The Shaykh : I could have quoted ... the end of the hadith, but the truth, as you have seen with me, is that the entire hadith is knowledge from beginning to end, and it is all jurisprudence. This is the intent behind his saying (peace be upon him), the well-known one: . So, jurisprudence in the religion is jurisprudence in the Book of Allah and in the Sunnah of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him and his family). He said (peace be upon him) to Mu'awiyah: . When she came, he said to her (peace and blessings be upon him): ... In the previous text, it is stated that it was the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) who established for us the practice of asking, "Where is Allah?" It is not we who innovated this question. We are followers of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) when we ask an authority, "Where is Allah?" The maidservant answered by saying: "In the sky." The Messenger of Allah is the one asking. She said: "In the sky." He said to her: . She said: "You are the Messenger of Allah." He said to her master: , . This concludes the hadith of Mu'awiyah ibn al-Hakam al-Sulami, which was narrated by the imams of hadith: Imam Muslim in his *Sahih*, Imam Malik in his *Muwatta*, Imam Ahmad in his *Musnad*, and his student Imam Abu Dawud in his *Sunan*. Count as many books of the Sunnah as you wish; they all narrated this story. This is an authentic hadith, and Imam al-Shafi'i (may Allah be pleased with him) and others used it as evidence. The entire Ummah accepted this hadith, and some rulings were derived from it, which we hinted at during our commentary on this authentic hadith. So what was the position of some scholars of *kalam* who did not follow his saying (peace and blessings be upon him): ? It is not just the Book of Allah that is sufficient. Why? Because Allah said in the Qur'an: . Thus, the Qur'an testifies to this hadith: .