their students and those among them who desire to stand upon the speech of the Predecessors (Salaf) in the chapters of the Attributes.

And here is Ibn al-Qayyim, may Allah have mercy on him, in Ijtimāʿ al-Juyūsh (p. 228), while speaking about Imam al-Dārimī, may Allah have mercy on him, and his two books: al-Radd ʿalā al-Jahmiyya and al-Naqḍ ʿalā al-Marīsī, he said: "His two books are among the most majestic books authored on the Sunna and the most beneficial of them. It is incumbent upon every seeker of the Sunna whose desire is to stand upon what the Companions, may God be pleased with them, the Successors, and the imams were upon, to read his two books. Shaykh al-Islām Ibn Taymiyya, may Allah have mercy on him, used to highly recommend these two books, and he venerated them greatly. In them, regarding the establishment of Monotheism (Tawhid), the Names, and the Attributes through reason and transmission, is what is not found in others." End quote.

And here is Ibn ʿAbd al-Hādī, may Allah have mercy on him, saying: "ʿUthmān b. Saʿīd... the champion of the Sunna, the subduer of Innovation... authored a majestic book in refutation of Bishr al-Marīsī and his followers among the Jahmiyya... He, may Allah have mercy on him, tore away the veil of the Jahmiyya in this book and exposed their scandals. I do not know of a book by the early scholars in this subject better than it, and than his other book in refutation of the Jahmiyya in general." End quote.

So how is it justifiable after this statement to say: "This book contains extremism in affirmation?! And the affirmation of what has no evidence reported for its affirmation?!" As for what he mentioned regarding sitting, movement, and weight, the Predecessors (Salaf) of the Umma and the scholars of the Sunna and traditions have affirmed them, and I have not come across anyone among them who denied them, as will be explained. See: (pp. 90, 172, and 225).

And since al-Albānī believes that in some of the books of the Predecessors (Salaf) there is extremism in affirmation, and the affirmation of what no evidence has been reported for, he considered that the attacks leveled against them by their enemies