Imam Aḥmad mentioned that in his Book of the Sunna (1), and he said at its beginning:
These are the doctrines of the people of knowledge and the partisans of tradition, and the people of the Sunna who hold fast to its handhold, who are known by it, and who are emulated in it, from the time of the Companions of the Prophet, peace and blessings of God be upon him, to this day of ours. I have met those whom I have met among the scholars of the people of the Hijaz, the Levant, and others [10/b] upon it. So whoever opposes anything of these doctrines, or attacks them, or faults the one who says them: he is an opponent, an innovator, outside the congregation, and deviating from the methodology of the Sunna and the path of truth (2).
except that God should come to them in shadows of clouds} [Al-Baqara: 210]: It is a clear proof against the Jahmiyya regarding what they deny of movement and descending to the lowest heaven. End quote.
Ibn Taymiyya, may Allah have mercy on him, said in Darʾ al-Taʿāruḍ (2/7) after mentioning the words of al-Dārimī and al-Kirmānī in affirming movement: These explicitly used the term: (movement), and that it is the school of law of the Imams of the Sunna and hadith from the early and later generations. Ḥarb al-Kirmānī mentioned that it is the statement of the Imams of the Sunna whom he met, such as Aḥmad b. Ḥanbal, Isḥāq b. Rāhawayh, ʿAbd Allāh b. al-Zubayr al-Ḥumaydī, and Saʿīd b. Manṣūr. ʿUthmān b. Saʿīd and others said: (Movement is among the necessary corollaries of life, so every living being is moving), and they made the denial of this among the statements of the Jahmiyya, the divestors of the attributes, whom the Predecessors and the Imams agreed upon declaring as misguided and innovators. End quote.
And see: Al-Naqḍ by al-Dārimī (p. 162), Sharḥ Ḥadīth al-Nuzūl (pp. 445-459), Al-Istiqāma (1/70), Darʾ al-Taʿāruḍ by Ibn Taymiyya (2/22), and Mukhtaṣar al-Ṣawāʿiq al-Mursala li-Ibn al-Qayyim by al-Mawṣilī (3/1230).
