so we expelled him from Sijistān.’

I say: Some jurists and hadith scholars have also denied it. In affirming the divine attributes in these matters, they follow the approach of Ibn Kullāb, al-Qalānisī, Abū al-Hasan and others like them, scarcely going beyond what such men affirmed, despite their knowledge of jurisprudence and hadith. Among them are this Abū Hātim, Abū Sulaymān al-Khattābī and others. Hence one finds statements by al-Khattābī and those like him that seem contradictory, since he sometimes resorts to figurative interpretation and refrains from doing so