Imāmiyyah.

He also reported that they affirmed motion in Him, and that all of them held this view except a small group. He mentioned that Hishām ibn al-Hakam, Hishām ibn al-Jawālīqī, Abū Mālik al-Hadramī, ʿAlī ibn Maytham, and others held that His will is motion. They held two views on whether it should be said to be other than Him.

He mentioned that one group held that He knows things before they come into being, except for the acts of His servants, which He knows only as they occur. This is the position of the extremists among the Qadariyyah, such as Maʿbad al-Juhanī and others like him, and it is one of the two views held by ʿAmr ibn ʿUbayd.

He mentioned that Zuhayr al-Atharī used to say that Allah is neither a body nor bounded, and that neither indwelling nor contact may be ascribed to Him. He asserted that Allah, Most High, will come on the Day of Resurrection, as He said