As for describing Him as having a limit and an end—which you claim is what “body” means—they, like the other proponents of the divine attributes, hold three positions. Some affirm this, as is transmitted from the early generations and the imams. Others deny it, while still others neither affirm nor deny it. Those among them who deny it nevertheless affirm the revealed attributes of Allah.

But this is not unique to the Hanbalis, as has already been partly explained and as will become clear when the positions of the imams and the Muslim community on this matter are presented. There is also a group among them who do not affirm the revealed attributes.

The fifteenth point:

Regarding this position that you have attributed to the Hanbalis—although you have not conveyed it faithfully, but have instead expressed it in terms they do not use, leading the listener to understand meanings they did not intend and to attribute to them beliefs they do not hold—you have identified no contradiction in it, as you did with the Karrāmiyya. Nor have you stated that they contradict either sensory perception or reason, as you did with the Karrāmiyya. Nor have you stated that they affirm anything whose falsity is known through sensory perception or reason, as you did with the Karrāmiyya. Nor have you described their position as contrary to what is rationally self-evident. And what