anything else.”

He said that, after ascribing corporeality to the Creator, they differed concerning His size. Some said: “He is a body, present in every place and extending beyond all places, yet nonetheless finite. His dimensions, however, exceed those of the world, because He is greater than everything.” Others said: “His dimensions equal those of the world.” Others said: “The Creator is a body with a certain measurable extent, but we do not know how great that extent is.”

Others said: “He has the finest proportions, which are to be neither huge and coarse nor small and puny.” It was related of Hishām that the finest proportions are seven handspans, measured by His own handspan.