‘Iyād, Ahmad ibn Hanbal, and Ishāq ibn Ibrāhīm al-Hanzalī agree that Allah, glorified is He, is Himself above the Throne; that His knowledge extends everywhere; that He will be seen with the eyes on the Day of Resurrection above the Throne; that He descends to the lowest heaven; that He becomes angry and is pleased; and that He speaks whatever He wills. Whoever disagrees with any of this is disassociated from them, and they are disassociated from such people.”

Imam Abū Bakr Muhammad ibn al-Hasan al-Hadramī al-Qayrawānī, who wrote the epistle he entitled An Epistle Alluding to the Question of Rising above the Throne, said, when discussing the disagreement among later scholars concerning rising above the Throne: