19- Judge Abū Yaʿlā al-Ḥanbalī (d. 458 AH).

[Al-Riwāyatayn wa-al-Wajhayn (p. 52), and Ibṭāl al-Taʾwīlāt (p. 601)].

20- Shaykh al-Islām Ibn Taymiyya (d. 728 AH), may Allah have mercy on him.

He said in his Sharḥ Ḥadīth al-Nuzūl (p. 400): "If the sitting of the deceased in his grave is not like the sitting of the physical body, then what has been transmitted in the reports from the Prophet, peace and blessings of God be upon him, regarding the terms 'sitting' (al-quʿūd) and 'sitting' (al-julūs) in relation to God Almighty—such as the hadith of Jaʿfar b. Abī Ṭālib, may God be pleased with him, and the hadith of ʿUmar b. al-Khaṭṭāb, may God be pleased with him, and others—is even more entitled to not resemble the attributes of the bodies of servants." End quote.

His statement regarding the hadith of ʿUmar, may God be pleased with him, will come under number (36): "When the Lord, Mighty and Majestic, sits on His Footstool": He said, "...most of the people of the Sunna accepted it... and it has multiple chains of transmission." End quote.

21- Ibn al-Qayyim (d. 751 AH), may Allah have mercy on him.

a- He said in his Nūniyya (p. 103):

The mention of sitting has come regarding Him, and in

A report narrated by the lordly Jaʿfar,

I mean the cousin of our Prophet, and in other than it

It has also come, and the truth is clear.

And the Imam al-Dāraquṭnī affirms the

Reports in this chapter without cowardice.

b- And he quoted in Al-Ṣawāʿiq al-Mursala (3/1303) the statement of Khārija b. Muṣʿab, may Allah have mercy on him: "Can rising over (istiwāʾ) be anything but sitting?" And he did not follow it up with any objection.

c- And he said: "As for the aboveness of the Essence, it varies according to its meaning, so it is said