and the Hand. As for his statement that the Karrāmīs do not affirm this, it may be so if he means some of them. Otherwise, there is no doubt that some of them affirm these attributes known through revelation, such as the Face and the Hand, which he calls limbs and parts. They also use the term “body,” either merely as a word or in both word and meaning.

As for the Hanbalīs, none of them is known to use this term. Some, however, negate it, while others neither negate nor affirm it. The latter was the position of Imam Ahmad and the other imams of the Sunnah, although they nevertheless affirm what the revealed texts convey, which their opponents call corporealism and likening Allah to His creation. Indeed, they say that affirming these meanings more fully embodies the meaning of corporealism than the position of someone who affirms