Abū Jaʿfar Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh related to me: Muḥammad ibn Qudāmah al-Sallāl al-Anṣārī narrated, “I heard Wakīʿ say, ‘Do not take their claim that “the Qur’an is created” lightly; it is among the worst of their pronouncements. What they are really aiming at is outright taʿṭīl—stripping the Divine of His attributes.’”