the Most Merciful’s fingers,” Ahmad explicitly rejected the Jahmiyyah’s interpretation of it. Al-Khallāl reported in his Book of the Sunnah from Abū Tālib, who said:

I said to Abū Abd Allāh, “Abū Ishāq ibn Abī al-Layth said that those who describe their Lord say, ‘He is the All-Hearing, the All-Seeing.’”

He said, “May Allah grant him well-being.” It seemed that his words pleased him.

I asked, “What do you say?”

He replied, “I say what the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said, and describe [Allah] as he described Him.” He would not go beyond the hadith. He said, “‘Between two fingers,’ and, ‘Allah created Adam,’ and whatever is related in the hadith