Al-Khattābī said in his al-Risālah al-Nāsihah (The Treatise of Sincere Counsel):

“One matter that must be understood and firmly established in this regard is that, concerning the divine attributes, reliance may be placed only on well-known hadiths whose chains of transmission are established as authentic and whose transmitters are established as upright. Some adherents of hadith have seized upon wordings whose authenticity is not established through their chains of transmission, and which occur only in isolated and anomalous transmissions. They have made these a basis for affirming attributes and included them among the divine attributes. An example is the hadith of intercession and the statement reported in it from the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace: ‘Then I return to my Lord and find Him at His place,’ or ‘in His place.’ On this understanding, they claimed