my father say: ‘A man came to Ahmad ibn Hanbal and asked, “Does Allah Most High have a limit?” He replied, “Yes; none knows it except Him. Allah, Blessed and Exalted, says: ‘And you will see the angels surrounding the Throne’ [al-Zumar 75]”—meaning encircling it.’”

Al-Khallāl also related in Kitāb al-Sunnah (The Book of the Sunnah): “Yūsuf ibn Mūsā informed me that Abū ‘Abd Allāh was asked, ‘Our Lord, Blessed and Exalted, does not resemble anything in His creation, nor does anything in His creation resemble Him?’ He replied, ‘Yes. “There is nothing like Him” [al-Shūrā 11].’”

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