We hold that Allah is upon His Throne, distinct from His creation—
“There is nothing like unto Him, and He is the All-Hearing, the All-Seeing” (Q. 42:11). He said:

“Our chosen view is that faith rises and falls. We believe in the punishment of the grave, in the Pool, in the questioning within the grave, and in intercession. We invoke Allah’s mercy upon all the Companions, we revile none of them, and we do not fight during civil strife. We hear and obey the one whom Allah has placed in authority over us. We deem the prayer, the pilgrimage, and jihad to be performed under the imams, and the zakah of livestock to be handed over to them. We also believe, on the basis of sound reports, that some of the monotheists will be taken out of the Fire through intercession.” Then he said:

“The sign of the innovators is that they attack the people of hadith. The sign of the Jahmiyyah is that they label the people of the Sunnah ‘anthropomorphists’ and ‘Naabitah.’ The sign of the Qadariyyah is that they call the people of the Sunnah ‘fatalists.’ The sign of the heretics is that they call the people of hadith 1 Hushwiyyah.”

Abū Ḥātim was one of the luminaries and among the foremost imams of the people of hadith. He met Abū Naʿīm, al-Anṣārī, and their peers, and he engaged in impugning and accrediting narrators, authenticating and critiquing reports. He kept pace with his contemporary and kinsman, the ḥāfiẓ Abū Zurʿah; Abū Dāwūd and other leading scholars transmitted from him. He died in 277 AH.

229- He is Imām al-Lālakāʾī, author of Sharḥ al-Sunan. What the compiler has quoted from him agrees with what is in 1/48/1-2 of that work, though with some abridgment and rearrangement.

230- I say: This is exactly what al-Kawtharī does. His marginalia and letters overflow with assaults on the ḥadith masters, accusing them of embodying Allah and branding them “anthropomorphists” and “Hushwiyyah.” Yet, in the eyes of his disciple, al-Kawtharī is “the erudite, decisive critic”! See my introduction to Sharḥ al-Ṭaḥāwiyyah, fourth edition, Islamic Office Press.

79- Yaḥyā ibn Muʿādh al-Rāzī, the foremost preacher of his age ( ?–258 AH).

257- Abū Ismāʿīl al-Anṣārī said in al-Fārūq, with a chain to Muḥammad ibn Maḥmūd: “I heard Yaḥyā ibn Muʿādh say:”