from the ambiguous verses of the Quran and interpreted them in a way that is foreign to their true meaning.
He said:
“Praise be to Allah, Who has placed—during every period in which the messengers have ceased to appear—…” End of citation.

2- Al-Risālah al-Tadmuriyyah, with the commentary Al-Tuḥfah al-Mahdiyyah, Dār al-Watan edition, p. 259.

Shaykh al-Islām Ibn Taymiyyah, may Allah have mercy on him, said:
“Because of this, the leading imams—such as Imam Aḥmad and others—used to censure the Jahmites and their likes, those who ‘distort the words from their proper places,’ for interpreting the ambiguous passages of the Quran in a manner contrary to their right interpretation. Ahmad himself, in the book he composed to refute the heretics and the Jahmites concerning what they found problematic among the Quran’s ambiguous verses and construed contrary to their proper meaning, condemned them only because they had interpreted it otherwise….”

The commentator Shaykh Fāliḥ ibn Mahdī Āl Mahdī said:
“Imam Aḥmad authored a book refuting these people and entitled it:
‘Refutation of the Heretics and the Jahmites concerning what they found problematic in the ambiguous verses of the Quran and interpreted contrary to their true meaning.’
Aḥmad faulted them for explaining the Quran in a way that differs from its intended sense.”
He then added:
“This work is one of the treatises Imam Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal composed while he was in prison. It was cited from him by al-Khallāl in al-Sunnah, by the judge Abū Yaʿlā, Abū’l-Faḍl al-Tamīmī, Abū’l-Wafāʾ ibn ʿAqīl, and several others of his students.” Shaykh Fāliḥ then reproduced a substantial portion of the book⦗1⦘.

3- Iqtiḍāʾ al-Ṣirāṭ al-Mustaqīm li-Mukhālafat Aṣḥāb al-Jaḥīm, Dār al-Muslim edition, verified by Dr. Nāṣir ibn ʿAbd al-Karīm al-ʿAql—may Allah preserve him—2/800–801.