the book al-Ibāna by Abū al-Hasan al-Ash'arī, expressing admiration for it and saying, “What fault can be found with someone whose doctrine this book expounds?”’ The hadith scholar Abū al-Qāsim said: [This is] the statement of Imam Abū 'Uthmān, one of the foremost scholars of the transmitted tradition in Khurāsān.”

Abū al-'Abbās Ahmad ibn Thābit al-Tarqī, the hadith scholar and author of al-Lawāmi' fī al-Jam' bayna al-Sihāh wa-l-Jawāmi', said in his own exposition of the question of Allah’s rising over the Throne: “I have seen these Jahmīs claiming affiliation