Shaykh al-Islam, may Allah have mercy on him, said:

“Allah, exalted be He, is the very Essence characterized by His necessary attributes; therefore the name ‘Allah’ can never apply to an essence stripped of attributes in any respect, nor can such a thing possibly exist. For that reason Ahmad—may Allah have mercy on him—said during his debate with the Jahmites:

‘We do not say: Allah and His knowledge, Allah and His power, or Allah and His light; rather, we say: Allah, with His knowledge, His power, and His light, is one God.’ 1

4-
Jawāb ahl al-ʿilm wa’l-īmān bi-taḥqīq mā akhbara bihi Rasūl al-Raḥmān that:

“Say, He is Allah, the One” (Q 112:1)
is equal to one-third of the Qur’an, Dār al-Watan, p. 95.

Shaykh al-Islam, may Allah have mercy on him, said:

“These people sought to marshal evidence for their innovation, so Imam Ahmad—may Allah have mercy on him—produced counter-arguments and refutations that invalidate it. In his reply to the Jahmites on this point he clarified that the term ghayr (‘other’) was never spoken by the Lawgiver, neither in negation nor in affirmation. 2

5- Darʾ taʿāruḍ al-ʿaql wa’l-naql, or Muwāfaqat ṣaḥīḥ al-manqūl li-ṣarīḥ al-maʿqūl, Dār al-Kutub al-ʿIlmiyyah edition, verified by ʿAbd al-Laṭīf ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, 1/377–378.

Shaykh al-Islam, may Allah have mercy on him, said:

“Ahmad, in his refutation of the Jahmites, stated:”