his followers and opponents differ in their accounts of him. Some claim that he held that Allah has a body and a form; others claim that he did not affirm a form; and still others claim that he affirmed a form but not a body.” He said: “Nor has it been established to my satisfaction that Ibn Maytham affirmed either a form or a body for Allah.”

In this section, Abū ‘Īsā stated—and many theologians have related the same to me—that Muqātil ibn Sulaymān, Nu‘aym ibn Hammād al-Misrī, and Dāwūd al-Jawāribī, along with a great many common people and adherents of hadith, said that Allah Most High has a form and limbs.

Abū ‘Īsā said: “I have been informed that Dāwūd al-Jawāribī said: ‘Excuse me from speaking about the private parts