Then he said:

300 – The position adopted by the people of knowledge is that Allah, exalted is He, is upon His Throne above His heavens, while His knowledge encompasses everything. It embraces all that He has created in the highest heavens and all that is in the seven earths, and to Him the deeds of the servants are raised.

If someone were to ask, “What, then, is the meaning of His words: ‘No secret conversation takes place among three but He is their fourth’ (Q 58:7)?” the answer is: it refers to His knowledge, while Allah is upon His Throne and His knowledge surrounds them. This is how the scholars have explained it, and the beginning and end of the verse alike indicate that what is meant is His knowledge while He is upon His Throne. Such is the creed of the Muslims.

He then said: “Ibn Makhlad narrated to us; Abū Dāwūd narrated to us; Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal narrated to us; Sarīḥ ibn al-Nuʿmān narrated to us; ʿAbd Allāh ibn Nāfiʿ reported that Mālik said, ‘Allah is in heaven, and His knowledge is in every place; no place is devoid of His knowledge.’”

Al-Ājurrī was a jurist upon the early tradition, an accomplished author who lived for a time near the Sacred Sanctuary. He transmitted from al-Kajjī, Abū Shuʿayb al-Ḥarrānī and their peers, and many pilgrims received knowledge from him. He died in 360 AH.

⦗284⦘ al-Sharīʿah, pp. 285–289.

127 – The ḥāfiẓ Abū Shaykh (274–369 AH)

301 – The ḥadith scholar of Isfahān, contemporary of al-Ṭabarānī, Abū Muḥammad Ibn Ḥayyān, may Allah have mercy on him, says in his book al-ʿAẓamah: “A chapter on the Throne of the Lord, His Footstool, the immense nature of both, and the exaltedness of the Lord above His Throne.” He then cited a group of aḥādīth on this subject that have already been mentioned.