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662. Abū Hurairah narrated that the Messenger of Allāh ﷺ said: "Indeed Allāh accepts charity, and He accepts it with His Right (Hand) to nurture it for one of you, just like one of you would nurture his foal, until the bite (of food) becomes as large as Uhud." The Book of Allāh, the Mighty and Sublime testifies to that: 'He accepts repentance from [1] Good and lawful. His worshippers, and accepts charity.[1] And: 'Allāh will destroy Ribā and will give increase for charity.'[2] (Abū 'Eisā) said: This Ḥadīth is (Ḥasan) Sahīh. It has been reported from 'Āishah from the Prophet ﷺ similarly. More than one of the people of knowledge have spoken about this Ḥadīth, and the narrations that resemble it about the Attributes and the Descent of the Lord, Blessed and Most High, every night to the lowest Heaven. They said: "The narrations about these are affirmed and should be believed in without misinterpreting them nor saying 'how'." It has been reported like this from Mālik (bin Anas), Sufyān bin 'Uyainah, 'Abdullāh bin Al-Mubārak; they would say about these Aḥādīth: They are conveyed without saying how. This is the view of the people of knowledge among Ahl As-Sunnah wal-Jamā'ah. As for the Jahmiyyah, they reject these narrations and they say that this is Tashbih.[3] And in other places in His Book, Allāh, Blessed and Most High is He, has mentioned the Hand, the Hearing, the Seeing, so the Jahmiyyah misinterpret these Āyāt and give them interpretations other than the interpretations of the people of knowledge. They say that Allāh did not create Ādam with His Hand, and they say the meaning of Hand is merely power. Ishāq bin Ibrāhīm said: At-Tashbih is only when one says 'Hand; like a hand or similar to a hand' or 'Hearing; like hearing or similar to hearing.' So when one says 'Hearing; like hearing or similar to hearing' then this is the Tashbih. As for when one says as Allāh (Most High) said, Hand, Hearing, Seeing, and he does not say 'how' nor say 'similar to hearing' nor 'like hearing' then this is not Tashbih. It is merely as Allāh, Blessed and Most High is He said: 'There is nothing like Him, and He is the All-Hearing, the All-Seeing.' (Ash-Shūra 42:11).