upon it. He then said in his argument: “What demonstrates the soundness of what we have stated is that it is the position of the early authorities among the linguists and others. Ibn Qutayba explained in his book Conflicting Hadiths that ‘The Most Merciful rose over the Throne’ {5} [Tā Hā 5] means ‘settled,’ just as Allah Most High says: ‘And when you and those with you have boarded the ship’ [al-Mu’minūn 28], meaning ‘have settled.’ Ibn Battah related from Ibn