Almighty extending into the six directions, but rather He is outside the universe, distinct from His creation, separate from them, not entering into all directions.

And this is the meaning of Aḥmad's statement: (He has a limit that no one knows except Him).

And the second: that He is upon an attribute by which He is separate from other than Him and distinct, and for this reason the doorkeeper is called a "ḥaddād" (limiter); because he prevents others from entering, so He Almighty is a single individual, it is impossible to share with Him in His most specific attributes.

This is what I found in the book of the Judge Abū [7/b] Yaʿlā in his own handwriting (1).

And likewise there was a blank space between (came) and (Ibn Ḥanbal), the correct version of which is: (A man came to Aḥmad b. Ḥanbal).

13- And I had the book "Al-Iʿtiqād", according to the school of law of Imam Aḥmad, authored by the Hadith master Abū al-ʿAlāʾ al-Hamadhānī, may Allah have mercy on him, and he said in it:

Indeed, God is over His Throne, and He has a limit. — or what carries this meaning — (2).

14- Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad b. ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq b. Khalaf al-Dimashqī informed us: Abū Zurʿa al-Laftuwānī ʿUbayd Allāh b. Muḥammad b. Shujāʿ informed us — in what he wrote to us —.