Wakī‘, al-Awzā‘ī, al-Layth, Hammād ibn Zayd, Hammād ibn Salama, Ibn ‘Uyayna, al-Fudayl ibn ‘Iyād, ‘Abd al-Rahmān ibn Mahdī, Aswad ibn Sālim, Ishāq ibn Rāhawayh, and Abū ‘Ubayd.

He also stated:

“What demonstrates the invalidity of figurative interpretation is that the Companions and the Successors after them understood these reports according to their apparent meaning, without attempting to interpret them figuratively or divert them from their apparent meaning. Had figurative interpretation been permissible, they would have been the first to adopt it, since it would eliminate likening Allah to creation and dispel