and the passage — up to his words: “He was one of the mushabbihah (anthropomorphists), and by his speech he misled a great many people.”¹ See also: 1/393, 419.

He likewise said, 1/463 – 464:
“Among those whom Imām Aḥmad warned against — he said in his epistle Refutation of the Heretics and the Jahmites: ‘The Jahmites said to us, once we had described these attributes …’” up to his statement: “And to Him alone belongs the loftiest description in all of His attributes.”²

See also: 1/466, 467, 474.

See likewise Bayān Talbīs al-Jahmiyyah: 2/12, 53, 56, 57, 60, 350, 519, 534, 542, 546, 548, 549, 551.

8 – Majmūʿ Fatāwā of Shaykh al-Islām Ibn Taymiyyah, compiled and arranged by ʿAbd al-Raḥmān Muḥammad al-Qāsim, may Allah have mercy on him.

Ibn Taymiyyah, may Allah have mercy on him, said, 5/496:
“Imām Aḥmad has elaborated on the matter of divine accompaniment (maʿiyyah) in his Refutation of the Jahmites.”

Ibn Taymiyyah also said, 12/440 – 441:
“Imām Aḥmad authored the Refutation of the Heretics and the Jahmites while he was in prison, and he wrote it in his own hand.”

He further said, 16/317:
“As Aḥmad stated in his sermon: ‘Praise be to Allah, who has placed in every period of decline between the messengers …’”

9 – Al-Ibānah ʿan Sharīʿat al-Firqah al-Nājiyah wa Mujānabat al-Firaq al-Madhmūmah by Ibn Baṭṭah al-ʿUkbarī, Dār al-Rāyah edition, edited by Dr. Yūsuf ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Wābil.