Al-Ashʿarī also said in al-Ibāna:

“The Jahmiyya and the Qadariyya claimed that Allah, Mighty and Majestic, has no knowledge, power, life, hearing, or sight. They wished to deny that Allah is knowing, powerful, living, hearing, and seeing, but fear of the sword prevented them from openly declaring this denial. They therefore expressed the same meaning: if they say that Allah, Mighty and Majestic, has no knowledge or power, they have thereby said that He is neither knowing nor powerful. This is a necessary consequence of their claim. They derived this only from the adherents of heresy and negation, for many heretics said that Allah is neither knowing, powerful, living, hearing, nor seeing. The Muʿtazila could not state this openly, so they expressed the same meaning, saying that Allah, Mighty and Majestic, is knowing, powerful, living, hearing, and seeing in name only, without affirming knowledge, power, hearing, or sight for Him.”

Moreover, there are many well-known statements by the early generations and the imams to the effect that the Jahmiyya