and the duty is to understand them according to their obvious sense—that they are attributes of God—while affirming that they bear no resemblance to any created being who may share the same wording. We do not entertain any notion of anthropomorphism concerning them; rather, we affirm them exactly as has been transmitted from Imām Aḥmad and the other leading authorities.
He then cited some of the statements of al-Zuhrī, Makḥūl, Mālik, al-Thawrī, al-Awzāʿī, al-Layth, Ḥammād ibn Zayd, Ḥammād ibn Salama, and Ibn ʿUyayna,