place.” [End quote].
2—Ibn ‘Atiyyah stated in al-Muharrar al-Wajiz (1/342): “‘The Most High’ (al-‘Ali): what is intended by it is highness of rank and status, not highness of place; because Allah is transcendent above being confined in space (al-tahayyuz). Al-Tabari narrated from a people that they said: ‘He is the Most High over His creation by the elevation of His place above the places of His creation.’ He said: ‘This is the statement of ignorant anthropomorphists (mujassimun), and it was more appropriate that it not be narrated.’” [End quote].
3—Ibn Furak stated in Mushkil al-Hadith (p. 391): “Allah, the Exalted, said: {Do you feel secure from Him who is in the heaven?} [Al-Mulk: 16], and the meaning of that is that He is above the heaven, not in the sense of the ‘aboveness’ of one who is settled in a place; because that is a characteristic of a limited, originated body; but rather in the sense of how He described Himself as being ‘above’ by way of: rank, status, greatness, and power.” [End quote].
4—Ibn Hazm stated in al-Fisal wa al-Nihal (2/98): “Allah, the Exalted, is not in a place or in a time at all. This is the view of the majority of the People of the Sunnah, and it is what we say; it is that which is not permissible to say otherwise due to the invalidity of everything besides it.” [End quote].
His statement: “the majority of the People of the Sunnah”—he does not mean by them the People of the Sunnah who affirm the attributes as it would occur to the mind of a Sunni; rather, he means those who negate the attributes (al-mu‘attilah), because he is one of them and follows their path in this chapter. Indeed, Ibn ‘Abd al-Hadi (may Allah have mercy on him) stated in Tabaqat ‘Ulama al-Hadith (3/350) while speaking about Ibn Hazm: “It has become clear to me that he is a hardcore Jahmi (jahmiyyun jaldun), who does not affirm from the meanings of the Beautiful Names of Allah except a little:"
إلَّا المكان). اهـ
٢- وقال ابن عطية في «المحرر الوجيز» (٣٤٢/١): (العلي): يراد به علو القدر والمنزلة، لا علو المكان؛ لأن الله مُنزَّه عن التحيز، وحكى الطبري عن قوم أنهم قالوا: هو العلي عن خلقه بارتفاع مكانه عن أماكن خلقه. قال: وهذا قول جهلة مجسمين، وكان الوجه أن لا يُحكى. اهـ
٣- قال ابن فورك في «مشكل الحديث» (ص٣٩١): قال تعالى:
﴿ءَأَمِنتُم مَّن فِى ٱلسَّمَآءِ﴾ [الملك: ١٦]، ومعنى ذلك أنه فوق السماء لا على معنى فوقية المتمكن في المكان؛ لأن ذلك صفة الجسم المحدود المحدَث؛ ولكن بمعنى ما وصف به أنه فوق من طريق: الرتبة، والمنزلة، والعظمة، والقدرة. اهـ
٤- قال ابن حزم في «الفصل والنحل» (٩٨/٢): الله تعالى لا في مكان ولا في زمان أصلًا، وهو قول الجمهور من أهل السنَّة وبه نقول، وهو الذي لا يجوز غيره لبطلان كل ما عداه. اهـ
قوله: (جمهور أهل السنَّة) لا يريد بهم أهل السنَّة مثبتة الصفات كما يتبادر إلى ذهن السُّنِّي، وإنما يريد بهم معطلة الصفات، لأنه منهم وعلى طريقتهم في هذا الباب، فقد قال ابن عبد الهادي رحمه الله في «طبقات علماء الحديث» (٣٥٠/٣) وهو يتكلم عن ابن حزم: تبيَّن لي أنه جهميٌّ جَلْدٌ، لا يُثبت من معاني أسماء الله الحسنى إلَّا القليل:
