His Throne, as His Book has plainly stated, but it omits the rest of the citation that begins, “and the scholars of the ummah …,” and so on. I said: Since I found nothing beyond this single line, I concluded that the printed work entitled al-ʿAqīdah must be other than the Risālah. Allah knows best.

148 – The Jurist Salīm ( ? – 447 AH)

323 – The exegete Imām Abū ’l-Fatḥ Salīm ibn Ayyūb al-Rāzī said in his Tafsīr when commenting on the verse, “The All-Merciful rose over the Throne”:

“Abū ʿUbaydah said: ‘He ascended,’ while another said: ‘He settled.’”¹

And regarding His words, “then He rose over the Throne,” he wrote:

“He rose on the seventh day.”

The entirety of his commentary proceeds on the basis of affirmation, not negation.

He was an outstanding imam who studied law under Shaykh Abū Ḥāmid al-Isfarāʾīnī, heard ḥadith from the students of Ibrāhīm ibn ʿAbd al-Ṣamad al-Hāshimī and Ibn Abī Ḥātim, authored numerous works, and was cited by the jurist Naṣr al-Maqdisī and others. He died in 447 AH.

149 – Abū Naṣr al-Sijzī ( ? – 444 AH)

243 – The authoritative ḥadith scholar Abū Naṣr ʿUbayd Allāh ibn Saʿīd al-Wāʾilī al-Sijzī said in his book al-Ibānah, which he composed that year:

“Our imams—Sufyān al-Thawrī, Mālik, Ḥammād ibn Salamah, Ḥammād ibn Zayd, Sufyān ibn ʿUyaynah, al-Fuḍayl, Ibn al-Mubārak, Aḥmad, and Isḥāq—are agreed that Allah, exalted be He, is, in His very Self, above the Throne, while His knowledge is in every place, and that He descends to the heaven …”

¹ 323.