al-Makhzūmī, saying:

“Leave Me with the one I created alone.” {11} [al-Muddaththir 11]

The one He called “alone” had two eyes, two ears, a tongue, two lips, two hands, two feet and many bodily members. Yet He called him “alone” with all his attributes. Likewise Allah—to whom belongs the highest description—is one God with all His attributes.’

This statement which Imam Ahmad reports from them—“You will never be monotheists until you say, ‘Allah existed, and there was nothing else’”—is ambiguous. What they mean, however, is that He existed without anything that could be called one of His attributes, for affirming the attributes entails, in their view, composition