4. My father said: Sa`d ibn `Abd Allah said, on the authority of Salamah ibn al-Khattab, on the authority of al-Qasim ibn Yahya, on the authority of his grandfather al-Hasan ibn alRashid that I asked Abu al-Hasan Musa ibn Ja`far about the meaning of Allah. He answerd,

“He overwhelms both the mighty and subtle.”