and enumerated in his book—His face, hearing, sight, and other attributes—reinterpreting them and passing judgment concerning Allah and His Messenger, point by point and matter by matter, according to the judgment of Bishr ibn Ghiyāth al-Marīsī. In this, he relies on no imam earlier than Bishr or, in his estimation, more rightly guided than him. We seized upon this, since he explicitly named him and submitted to his judgment concerning these attributes, for the jurists generally had agreed that he was an unbeliever, and he had been unmasked and disgraced in his own city and throughout the other cities among those who had heard of him.

The opponent then transmitted from Bishr al-Marīsī, allegedly by way of a reading, and claiming that Bishr had told him, ‘Relate it on my authority,’ that he said concerning Allah’s words to Iblīs:

‘What prevented you from prostrating to what I created with My two hands?’ [Sād 75]

He then claimed that Bishr said: ‘He means