And it has reached us that when they bore the Throne, with the Compeller above it in His might and splendour, they lacked the strength to carry it, humbled themselves, and sank to their knees until they were taught to say, “There is no might nor power except through Allah.” They then bore it aloft through Allah’s power and will. Without that, neither the Throne, nor its bearers, nor the heavens and the earth, nor anyone within them could have borne Him. Had He so willed, He could have been borne on the back of a mosquito, which would have borne Him through His power and the subtle exercise of His lordship. How much more so upon a mighty Throne, greater than the seven heavens and the seven earths! Were the Throne within the heavens and the earths, they could not contain it; rather, it is above the seventh heaven.

Once you understand the basis of this discourse, all those among the early generations and the imams whom it reached rejected the negations it contained that contradict what the Quran and Sunnah teach. Then, as for those of the early generations who were better acquainted with the Jahmiyyah—such as the early scholars and imams who dealt directly with them in Iraq and Khurāsān at the time