The hadith master Abū Nu‘aym al-Asbahānī said in the creed he compiled:

“Our way is that of the predecessors who followed the Book, the Sunnah, and the consensus of the Muslim community. Among their beliefs is that Allah, glorified be He, has always been All-Knowing with knowledge, All-Seeing with sight, All-Hearing with hearing, and speaking with speech; then He brought things into being from nothing. The Quran is Allah’s speech, and likewise all His other revealed Books are His speech, uncreated. The Quran, in every respect—whether read, recited, memorized, heard, written, or uttered—is truly Allah’s speech, not a representation or a rendering of it. As uttered by us, it is Allah’s speech, uncreated. The Wāqifah and the Lafziyyah are among the Jahmiyyah, and whoever refers to the Quran in any way