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How to reconcile the statement regarding the attributes (both His hands are right) with the narration that says (and He holds the other with His left)?

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The questioner : How to reconcile the statement regarding the attributes
Both His hands are right كلتا يديه يمين
with the narration that says
and He holds the other with His left ويمسك الأخرى بشماله
, knowing that the narration is in one of the two Sahihs?

The Shaykh : Which narration is in the two Sahihs?

The questioner :
and He holds the other with His left ويمسك الأخرى بشماله
.

The Shaykh : This is not in "the two Sahihs." First, it does not exist in "Sahih Muslim." Then, some scholars have spoken about it. As for the correct narration, it is
both of the Hands of my Lord are right كلتا يدي ربي يمين
Jami` at-Tirmidhi 3367Hasan (Darussalam)
, which is the one that narrates that there is a right and a left. But I say this because it appears to me, as a student of knowledge, to know the truth. The second hadith is in "Sahih Muslim," and in it there is a man about whom some have spoken, named 'Amr ibn Hamzah. However, the hadith has some corroborating narrations outside of "Sahih Muslim," by which it can be strengthened. After that, we enter into the answer regarding the reconciliation of the two hadiths. The truth is that the correct hadith
both of the Hands of my Lord are right وكلتا يدي ربي يمين
Jami` at-Tirmidhi 3367Hasan (Darussalam)
And if the Qur'anic principle says
There is nothing like unto Him ليس كمثله شيء
[Ash-Shuraa 42:11]
, then His saying, peace and blessings be upon him,
both of the Hands of my Lord are right كلتا يدي ربي يمين
Jami` at-Tirmidhi 3367Hasan (Darussalam)
is an affirmation that there is nothing like Him. So there is no problem. If the second hadith is authentic, then it is to affirm that He has the two hands known to people, a right and a left. But Allah, Blessed and Exalted is He, is not like anything. So both the hands of my Lord are right, as we said regarding the previous hadith
Beware! There is a piece of flesh in the body ألا وإن في الجسد مضغة
Sahih al-Bukhari 52
, and so on. That this is a principle, and then its detail came in some other hadiths, and we mentioned some of them earlier. Likewise, the principle of purifying Allah, Mighty and Majestic, and not... this principle. And as an example of it, when He said
both of the Hands of my Lord are right وكلتا يدي ربي يمين
Jami` at-Tirmidhi 3367Hasan (Darussalam)
, this is an attribute specific to Allah, in which none of the servants of Allah, Blessed and Exalted is He, shares with Him. If the second hadith is authentic, it is on the consideration that people know that there is a right hand and a left hand. So Allah has two hands, but He is distinguished from the created beings by the fact that both His hands are right.
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