18. `Ali ibn Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn `Imran al-Daqqaq said: Abu al-Husayn Muhammad ibn Abu `Abd Allah al-Kufi said: Muhammad ibn Sulayman ibn al-Hasan al-Kufi said: `Abd Allah ibn Muhammad bin Khalid said, on the authority of `Ali ibn Hasan al-Wasiti, on the authority of some of our scholars, on the authority of Zurarah that I asked Abu Ja`far al-Baqir : “Verily, the people in our presence are talking increasingly about the attributes of Allah. What should we say? So, he replied, “It is abhorred [makruh]. Do you not hear Allah, the Mighty and High, saying that And that to your Lord is the end of all. Speak about other than that.”