those who deny the attributes known through revelation say that those who affirm them while denying that Allah is a body are inconsistent. Those among them who affirm His being above creation and the attributes known through revelation say that those among them who deny these are inconsistent: they affirm what is an accident in a creature—such as knowledge, power, and life—and say that it is not an accident in the Creator’s case, yet they do not likewise affirm what is a body in a creature—such as a hand or a face—while saying that it is not a body in the Creator’s case.

The same applies to the followers of Imam Ahmad. Some of them, such as Ibn ʿAqīl, Sadaqa ibn al-Husayn, and Abū al-Faraj ibn al-Jawzī, may say that Ibn Hāmid and al-Qādī Abū Yaʿlā