“Three of the prophets are mushabbihah (anthropomorphists): Moses—because he said, ‘It is nothing but Your trial’ [Al-Aʿraf 7:155]; Jesus—because he said, ‘You know what is within my soul, whereas I do not know what is within Yours’ [Al-Māʾidah 5:116]; and Muhammad—because he said, ‘Our Lord descends.’”

The Muʿtazilah went even further, for the vast majority of them consign most of the great Imams—Malik and his disciples, Sufyan al-Thawri and his disciples, al-Awzaʿi and his disciples, al-Shafiʿi and his disciples, Ahmad and his disciples, Ishaq ibn Rahwayh, Abu ʿUbayd, and others—to the category of mushabbihah.

[The innovators’ practice of attaching vile labels to Ahl al-Sunnah]

Abu Ishaq Ibrahim ibn ʿUthman ibn Darbas al-Shafiʿi even authored a separate treatise