عبد الواحد بن حماد بن الحارث أبو سهل الخجندي

Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Saʿīd related to us. He said: ʿAbd al-Wāḥid ibn Ḥammād ibn al-Ḥārith, Abū Sahl al-Khujandī, related to us. He said: My father related to us. He said: al-Naḍr ibn Muḥammad related to us, from Abū Ḥanīfa, from Yazīd ibn Ṣuhayb, may God have mercy on them, from Jābir ibn ʿAbd Allāh, may God be pleased with him, who said: I asked him about intercession. He replied: “God, Blessed and Most High, will punish some people of faith, then bring them out through Muḥammad’s intercession, God bless him and grant him peace.” I asked: “Then what of God’s words, Mighty and Majestic: ‘They will not come out of it, and theirs is a lasting punishment’ [al-Māʾida: 37]?” He replied: “This concerns those who disbelieved. Read what precedes it: ‘Those who disbelieved, even if they possessed everything on earth’ [al-Māʾida: 36].”