In al-Maqālāt (1) he did not trace that doctrine to anyone before him; he only (2) reported that some of the Murjiʾah held the same view (3), and he related that certain Zaydis said something that could agree with part of it (4).
Abū al-Hasan likewise records in his Kitāb al-Maqālāt (5)(6) the creed of the ḥadīth scholars, the people of the Sunnah, saying: “This is an account of the belief of the entire (7) body of ḥadīth scholars and Ahl al-Sunnah.”
The sum of what the ḥadīth scholars (8) and the people of the Sunnah (9) affirm is: belief in Allah, His angels, His books, and His messengers; acceptance of everything that has come from Allah and of all that trustworthy transmitters have narrated from the Messenger of Allah—may Allah bless him and grant him peace—rejecting none of it. Allah, exalted is He, is one, unique, the Self-Sufficient Master; there is no deity besides Him. He has taken neither consort nor child, and Muḥammad is His servant and His messenger. Paradise is real, Hellfire is real, the Hour is coming without doubt, and Allah will resurrect those who are in the graves. Allah is above His Throne, as He said:
“The Most Merciful rose over the Throne” (10);
and He has two hands, without asking how, as He said:
“…for what I created with My two hands” (11),