, with a limit.’ He said, ‘I have heard that,’ and he approved of it.”

Al-Qādī said: “This is to be understood as meaning that the limit refers to the Throne, not to the divine Essence or to the rising over the Throne. His intention was to explain that the Throne, despite its greatness, is bounded.”

I say: What al-Qādī has said here concerning rising over the Throne is what the early Ash'arī imams say, and it is close to the view of Abū Muhammad ibn