regarding it: He rose over, He is high, He is elevated, He ascended, such-and-such ascends to Him, it goes up to Him, it descends from Him, He is high above such-and-such, He is the Exalter of ranks, hands are raised to Him, and He sits on His Footstool." End quote. [Mukhtaṣar al-Ṣawāʿiq (3/1095-1096)].
22- Al-Dhahabī (d. 748 AH).
He authenticated the report of ʿUmar, may God be pleased with him: "When the Lord, Mighty and Majestic, sits on the Footstool" in his book Al-ʿArsh (2/121), and commented on it as previously mentioned, and his statement will likewise come when referencing the hadith of ʿUmar, may God be pleased with him.
23- Muḥammad b. ʿAbd Allāh b. al-Muḥibb (d. 789 AH), may Allah have mercy on him, titled a chapter in his large book Al-Ṣifāt (1/90 q): (Chapter on Sitting).
24- Shaykh ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. Ḥasan b. Muḥammad b. ʿAbd al-Wahhāb (d. 1285 AH)
may Allah have mercy on them, in his commentary Fatḥ al-Majīd (p. 498) (Chapter on whoever denies anything of the Names and Attributes), for he cited as evidence in his commentary the hadith of ʿUmar, may God be pleased with him:
"When the Lord, Mighty and Majestic, sits on the Footstool."
25- Shaykh Sulaymān b. Saḥmān (d. 1349 AH), may Allah have mercy on him.
He said in Al-Ḍiyāʾ al-Shāriq fī Radd Shubuhāt al-Mādhiq al-Māriq (p. 180):
The Iraqi atheist said: "(And among the strange things about him [meaning: Shaykh al-Islām Muḥammad b. ʿAbd al-Wahhāb, may Allah have mercy on him] is that he misleads the people with the claim of Monotheism (Tawhid) of God and declaring Him transcendent, saying: 'Seeking intercession through other than God is polytheism,' while he explicitly speaks of
