He mentioned the aforementioned verses of al-Dāraquṭnī and Ibn al-Qayyim regarding the affirmation of sitting, then he said: "If this is established from the Imams of the people of Islam, then no consideration is given to those who oppose them among the riffraff who are like cattle." End quote.
26 - Sheikh Muḥammad b. Ibrāhīm Āl al-Shaykh (1389), may Allah have mercy on him.
He affirmed the report of Mujāhid regarding the seating of the Prophet, peace and blessings of God be upon him, with his Lord on the Throne. As will come (p. 266); see: Majmūʿ al-Fatāwā wa-al-Rasāʾil (2/136).
27 - Sheikh ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. Nāṣir al-Saʿdī (1376 AH), may Allah have mercy on him.
He was asked about what ʿAbd Allāh, son of the Imam Aḥmad, may Allah have mercy on them both, narrated in Al-Sunna:
1 - The statement of Khārija: (Is establishment anything but sitting?).
2 - And the hadith of ʿAbd Allāh b. Khalīfa, from ʿUmar, may God be pleased with him, who said: When the Lord, Mighty and Majestic, sits on the Footstool, a creaking sound is heard from it .. the hadith.
Part of his answer to the one who found these reports problematic was: .. But your finding this problematic is only due to what is in these reports regarding the mention of the attributes of God and the explicit mention of sitting in establishment, and when He sits on His Footstool... etc.
These explicit statements will cease to be problematic if they are built upon the established principle in the Book, the Sunna, and the consensus of the predecessors of the Umma: that there is nothing like God Almighty, and that it is obligatory to affirm all that is reported in the Book and the Sunna of the attributes of the Creator and His established actions in a manner that befits the greatness of the Creator .. For just as
