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Abbas' hadith means that the Prophet saw Allah with the eye of Paradise.
As for the Companions, they were convinced by the statement of Allah that He is unlike any of His Creation. It did not entered their head for a moment that Allah has body parts comparable to that of a human, nor did they try to interpret His Divine Hadith because His description is beyond the comprehension of any human. The only similarity is the pronouncing of the words but not its meaning.
In later centuries when scholars were confronted by different civilizations in which their deities were subject to dimension, time, location and other earthly attributes, Muslim scholars did not waver in their belief that there is nothing like Allah, neither did they go into fine details, but when the situation needed to be addressed they would briefly alluded to such matters as being His attributes such as His Power, Mercy, Kindliness and such like.
There is no contradiction between the statements of Lady Ayesha and Abbas' son. Lady Ayesha was addressing the fact that the Prophet did not see Allah in a place and direction, whereas Abbas' son was referring to the Prophet sighting of Him through the eye of Paradise.
In conclusion, there are two schools of thought, one is the early generation - that is the Companions, their followers and their immediate followers (Tabien and Tabi Tabien) - who read it and reserved the meaning for Allah and did not question it. Whereas the following generation (Khalaf) interpreted it in keeping with the purity of the Koran and Hadith in order to spread Islam among those who had yet to hear about it.
THE INTERCESSION
OF
PROPHET MUHAMMAD
The Cure
SAHIH-SHEFA
As for the Companions, they were convinced by the statement of Allah that He is unlike any of His Creation. It did not entered their head for a moment that Allah has body parts comparable to that of a human, nor did they try to interpret His Divine Hadith because His description is beyond the comprehension of any human. The only similarity is the pronouncing of the words but not its meaning.
In later centuries when scholars were confronted by different civilizations in which their deities were subject to dimension, time, location and other earthly attributes, Muslim scholars did not waver in their belief that there is nothing like Allah, neither did they go into fine details, but when the situation needed to be addressed they would briefly alluded to such matters as being His attributes such as His Power, Mercy, Kindliness and such like.
There is no contradiction between the statements of Lady Ayesha and Abbas' son. Lady Ayesha was addressing the fact that the Prophet did not see Allah in a place and direction, whereas Abbas' son was referring to the Prophet sighting of Him through the eye of Paradise.
In conclusion, there are two schools of thought, one is the early generation - that is the Companions, their followers and their immediate followers (Tabien and Tabi Tabien) - who read it and reserved the meaning for Allah and did not question it. Whereas the following generation (Khalaf) interpreted it in keeping with the purity of the Koran and Hadith in order to spread Islam among those who had yet to hear about it.
THE INTERCESSION
OF
PROPHET MUHAMMAD
The Cure
SAHIH-SHEFA