is a claim that whatever exists must be either a body or something subsisting in one,” and similar assertions, does not refute what has been stated, now that we have cited some of their earlier statements. For the first person in this community to introduce the description of an existent as having no end was Jahm. The terms “that which occupies space,” “body,” “limit,” and “end,” and declaring the Lord—glory be to Him—transcendent through these terms, are all innovations of the Jahmiyyah.

Imam Abū Saʿīd ʿUthmān ibn Saʿīd al-Dārimī said: “The opponent claimed that Allah has no limit, utmost extent, or end.” He said: “This is the foundation upon which Jahm built all his deviations and from which he derived his fallacies. This is a statement in which, so far as we have heard, Jahm was not preceded by anyone among