“The evidence for the correctness of the position of the people of truth …”

He then cited some verses, until he said:

“This is too widely known and familiar among ordinary people and scholars alike to require anything beyond stating it, for it is known intuitively: no one taught it to them, and no Muslim has denied it.”

Abū Umar ibn Abd al-Barr also said: “The scholars among the Companions and Successors from whom Quranic interpretation has been transmitted unanimously agreed concerning the interpretation of His words, Exalted is He:

‘There is no private conversation among three but that He is the fourth of them.’ [al-Mujādilah: 7]

They said: ‘He is upon the Throne, and His knowledge is everywhere.’ No one whose opinion carries weight disagreed with them on this.”

Abū Umar also said: “Ahl al-Sunnah unanimously agree on affirming all the attributes mentioned in the Quran and Sunnah, believing in them, and understanding them in their real rather than metaphorical sense. However, they do not specify the nature of any of them, nor do they find therein a circumscribed [description]. As for the people of innovation—the Jahmiyyah, all the Mu‘tazilah, and the Khawārij—they all deny these attributes and do not interpret any of them