one may conceive in his mind an endpoint to His limit. Rather, we affirm the limit and entrust knowledge of it to Allah Most High. His place also has a limit, and He is upon His Throne above His heavens. These, then, are two limits.

He said: Ibn al-Mubārak was asked, ‘How do we know our Lord?’ He replied, ‘By knowing that He is upon the Throne, separate from His creation.’ He was asked, ‘With a limit?’ He replied, ‘With a limit.’ Al-Hasan ibn Sālih al-Bazzār narrated this to us from ʿAlī ibn al-Hasan ibn Shaqīq, from Ibn al-Mubārak.