meaning: like the kursī (footstool), the place for the two feet. He added, “We met Ismāʿīl ibn Abī Khālid, Sufyān, and Masʿar relating these hadiths, and they did not interpret a single word of them.”

28 – Abū ʿUmar Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr said: “We have transmitted from Mālik ibn Anas, Sufyān al-Thawrī, Sufyān ibn ʿUyaynah, al-Awzāʿī, and Maʿmar ibn Rāshid, regarding the hadiths that mention the divine attributes, that all of them said: ‘Let them pass exactly as they have come.’”

29 – One of the jurists of Madīnah said: “Allah possesses knowledge of a kind He has taught the servants, and He possesses knowledge that He has not taught them. Whoever seeks the knowledge that He has withheld from the servants only grows more distant from it, and the matter of destiny (qadar) is part of that.”

30 – Saʿīd ibn Jubayr said: “Whatever the veterans of Badr did not know is not part of the religion.”

31 – Abū ʿUmar said: “Whatever has reached us from the Prophet ﷺ through reliable transmitters, or from the Companions—may Allah be pleased with them—is knowledge by which one worships. Anything introduced after them with no foundation in what has come from them is an innovation and a deviation. As for whatever pertains to Allah’s names and attributes that has come from them, it must be accepted in submission, without disputation about it, just as they themselves did not dispute about it.”

32 – Abū Bakr al-Khallāl said: “Al-Marwadhī informed us, saying, ‘I asked Abū ʿAbd Allāh about…’”