al-Iskāfī and others, who maintain that motions and states of rest, standing and sitting, union and separation, length and breadth, colors, tastes, and fragrances ⦗1⦘, together with sounds, speech, silence, obedience and disobedience, unbelief and faith, every human action, heat and cold, moisture and dryness, softness and roughness, are all accidents, not bodies).

He ⦗2⦘ said: “Zarqān relates that Jahm ibn Ṣafwān used to claim that motion is itself a body and that it is impossible for it to be anything other than a body, because what is not a body is Allah Most High, and nothing resembles Him.⦗3⦘”

He ⦗4⦘ said: “It is reported of Ibrāhīm al-Naẓẓām that he asserted that length is identical with the long thing and breadth with the broad thing. He also affirmed that colors, tastes, fragrances ⦗5⦘, sounds, pains, heat, cold, moisture, and dryness are subtle bodies, maintaining that the spatial locus of color is the same as that of taste and scent, and that several subtle bodies can coexist within a single locus ⦗6⦘. He acknowledged no accident at all except motion alone).”

He ⦗7⦘ said: “ʿAbbād ibn Sulaymān held that accidents exist apart from bodies, …”