The ninth point: Although the meaning they have mentioned is valid in itself, and the hadith may indicate it by implication and by including it within its meaning, restricting the hadith to that meaning is unquestionably false, as explained earlier.

The tenth point: Allah’s face and form are affirmed in numerous texts of the Quran and the mass-transmitted Sunnah, and the early generations of the Muslim community agreed upon this. A selection of texts affirming Allah’s form will be presented later, Allah Most High willing, such as: “Then Allah will come to them in his form, which they recognize,” and similar hadiths whose authenticity and established transmission the scholars unanimously accept. As for the word “face,” the texts affirming it are too numerous to enumerate exhaustively.

If it is said: His words (may Allah bless him and grant him peace), “Allah created Adam in his form; his height was sixty cubits. When he had created him, he said to him, ‘Go to that group of angels