al-Sahīh, and other imams of Islam whom Allah willed. Muhammad ibn Ishāq ibn Khuzayma even said:

“Whoever does not affirm that Allah is above His heavens, upon His Throne, separate from His creation, must be called upon to repent. If he repents, well and good; otherwise, he is to be killed and then cast onto a rubbish heap, so that neither Muslims nor non-Muslims under Muslim protection are troubled by his foul stench.”

This was reported from him by al-Hākim Abū ‘Abd Allāh al-Naysābūrī