‘We know our Lord to be in the seventh heaven, over His Throne, with a limit.’” Ahmad replied, “That is how we understand it.”

He said: I saw in Abū Ishāq’s handwriting: Abū Bakr Ahmad ibn Nasr al-Raffā’ narrated to us, saying: I heard Abū Bakr ibn Abī Dāwūd say: I heard my father say: A man came to Ahmad ibn Hanbal and asked, “Does Allah