And at 9/4 Shaykh al-Islam, may Allah have mercy on him, said: “Ahmad wrote: ‘Then the Jahmite put forward another claim, saying, “I have found a verse in the Book of Allah that indicates the Qur’an is created …”’—up to his words: ‘just as one says: the slave of Allah, the heaven of Allah, and the earth of Allah.’¹

6 – Tafsīr Sūrat al-Ikhlāṣ, published by Dār al-Rayyān lil-Turāth and al-Dār al-Salafiyyah, Bombay, India; edited by Dr. ʿAbd al-ʿAlī ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd Ḥāmid.

Shaykh al-Islam, may Allah have mercy on him, wrote on pp. 153–154: “Imam Ahmad, in his sermon refuting the Jahmites and the heretics…” and he reproduced the sermon.

On p. 239 he, may Allah have mercy on him, said: “The wording of Imam Ahmad and other early scholars can bear this meaning, for Ahmad reported in his rebuttal of the Jahmites that they argued with three verses from the ambiguous texts …” Then he said: “Ahmad said the same in the preface to the book he composed while in prison, namely: Refutation of the Heretics and the Jahmites regarding what they found doubtful among the ambiguous verses of the Qur’an and interpreted contrary to their proper meaning.”

On p. 274 Shaykh al-Islam, may Allah have mercy on him, said: “Just as Imam Ahmad wrote in his Refutation of the Heretics and the Jahmites regarding what they found doubtful among the ambiguous verses of the Qur’an and interpreted contrary to their proper meaning.”

And on p. 317 he, may Allah have mercy on him, said: “Ahmad said: They said: ‘You will not be …’”