11- And I found in the book "Al-Uṣūl" (1) by the Judge Abū Yaʿlā Muḥammad b. al-Ḥusayn b. al-Farrāʾ, may God be pleased with him — in his own handwriting — that he said:

Aḥmad used the statement unrestrictedly: that God Almighty has a limit.

Aḥmad explicitly stated it in the narration of al-Marrūdhī, and he mentioned the statement of Ibn al-Mubārak:

We know God Almighty over the Throne with a limit.

So he said: That reached me from him, and it pleased him (2).

And al-Athram said: I said to Aḥmad: It is related from Ibn al-Mubārak: We know our Lord in the seventh heaven over His Throne with a limit.

So Aḥmad said: That is how it is with us.

12- And I saw in the handwriting of the Judge Abū Yaʿlā (3):

Abū Bakr Aḥmad b. Naṣr al-Raffāʾ informed us, he said: I heard Abū Bakr b. Abī Dāwūd say: I heard my father say: Ibn Ḥanbal came (4) and he said to him: Does God, Blessed