within something created and on earth, whereas such attributes are impossible for the Eternal—glory be to Him. This differs from the earlier affirmation of a right hand in the preceding report as an attribute of His essence—meaning the statement recorded in Sahīh Muslim: ‘On the Day of Resurrection, the just will be with Allah upon pulpits of light, to the right of the Most Merciful, and both His hands are right hands’—because there is no impossibility in attributing