ʿAbd al-Wahhāb and a number of leading scholars of hadith and jurisprudence. He said, “This is also the apparent meaning of some works of Judge Abū Bakr and Abū al-Hasan”—meaning al-Ashʿarī. He also explicitly attributed this to him—meaning Judge Abū Bakr—and to Judge ʿAbd al-Wahhāb: that He, glorified and exalted, is established over His Throne in His very Self. He said, “In some passages they used the unqualified expression ‘above His Throne.’”

Abū Bakr al-Hadramī said, “This is the correct view, which I affirm, without delimitation, being situated in a place, existing within it, or contact.”