and the second position is that He is a body. They denied that He could be described by the five qualities or by anything Hishām ascribed to Him, except that He is upon the Throne, in contact with it and nothing else. These two positions resemble the position al-Rāzī attributed to the early Karrāmiyya.

The third position affirms that the Creator, exalted is He, has coloration, while denying that He has taste, color, or smell, or possesses length, breadth, or depth, but maintains that He moves.

The second position he reported from the corporealists is that He has length, breadth, and depth. These people say that “body” means that which exists and subsists by itself, and that He also has length, breadth, and depth and is described as moving and being at rest. Whatever is not so falls into the category of nonexistence. Thus, their statement