Husayn al-Najjār. The speculative theology of those men was better than that of these men, who combined their predecessors’ negation of the divine attributes with the heresy of the philosophers—even though those predecessors had not disclosed to the imams everything they harbored in their hearts. The Jahmiyyah did not openly tell them that Allah is neither within the world nor outside it; they only openly declared that He is everywhere. The imams regarded what they disclosed as a grave enormity—so what of what they concealed? Yet what those men concealed was better than the doctrine of the heretics who combined the teachings of the Jahmiyyah with those of the eternalist philosophers. A trustworthy man used to relate that when Shaykh Abū ʿAmr Ibn al-Salāh saw