Aṣ-Ṣamad

How the scholars invoke Aṣ-Ṣamad.

1. "himself from the people. Sufyan, who is Ibn Uyayna, said, It was said to Luqman, Who among the people is the worst? He said, The one who does not care to be seen by the people doing wrong. Abu al-Samad narrated from Malik ibn Dinar, who said, I found in some wisdom that Allah destroys the bones of those who speak according to the whims of the people, and I found in it that there is no good for you in knowing what you do not know if you do not act upon what you have learned. The example of that is like a man who gathered firewood and tied a bundle, then went to carry it, but could not manage it, so he added another to it."

   — Ibn Kathir, Volume 2 — From the Israelite Prophets to Pre-Islamic Arabia

2. "born and there is none comparable to him it confirms that he is the one who has no peer in his self nor in his attributes nor in his actions. Al-Samad the eternal refuge he is the master who is perfect in his knowledge wisdom and mercy and achieves all his attributes he does not beget meaning no child has come from him and nor was he begotten meaning nothing preceded him and there is none comparable to him that is there is no one equal or similar or alike to him this eliminates any possible peer whether close or superior or equal thus it negates the possibility of him having a child for a child is"

   — Ibn Kathir, The Story of Isa

3. "Another route. The Imam Ahmad said: Abd al-Samad told us: al-Qasim, that is Ibn al-Fadl, told us: Amr ibn Murra told us, from Salim ibn Abi al-Ja'd. He said: Uthman called some men of the Companions of the Messenger of God, God's peace and blessings be upon him, among them Ammar ibn Yasir, and said: "I am going to ask you, and I would like you to tell me the truth. I adjure you by God: do you know that the Messenger of God, God's peace and blessings be upon him, used to favor Quraysh over the people, and favor the Banu Hashim over the rest of Quraysh?""

   — Ibn Kathir, Uthman ibn Affan

4. "She said: "The Prophet, God's peace and blessings be upon him, said, 'He is the Commander of the Faithful.'" The first to greet him with it was al-Mughira ibn Shu'ba, or, it is said, another, and God knows best. Ibn Jarir said: Ahmad ibn Abd al-Samad al-Ansari told me: Umm Amr bint Hassan al-Kufiyya, who had reached a hundred and thirty years, told me, from her father, who said: When Umar came to rule they said: "O Successor of the Successor of the Messenger of God.""

   — Ibn Kathir, Umar ibn al-Khattab