did not speak is a disbeliever. Rather, we narrate these hadiths just as they came.'
Al-Marrūdhī, may God have mercy on him, said: "I heard Abū ʿAbd Allāh when it was said to him: 'ʿAbd al-Wahhāb has spoken, and he said: Whoever claims that God spoke to Moses without a sound is a Jahmī, an enemy of God, and an enemy of Islam.' So Abū ʿAbd Allāh smiled and said: 'How excellent is what he said, may God grant him well-being.'" [Al-Darʾ (2/39)].
Al-Ājurrī, may God have mercy on him, said in al-Sharīʿa (3/1107): "Whoever claims that he is a Muslim, then claims that God, Mighty and Majestic, did not speak to Moses, has disbelieved. He is asked to repent; if he repents [it is accepted], and if not, he is killed.
It is said: Because he has rejected the Qurʾān, denied, rejected the Sunna, opposed all the scholars of the Muslims, and deviated from the truth... As for the evidence against them from the Qurʾān, God, Mighty and Majestic, said in Sūrat al-Nisāʾ: {And God spoke directly to Moses} [al-Nisāʾ: 164]... So whoever claims that God, Mighty and Majestic, did not speak to Moses has rejected the explicit text of the Qurʾān and disbelieved in God the Great.
If a speaker among them says: 'God Almighty created speech in the tree and spoke to Moses with it.'
It is said to him: 'This is disbelief; because he claims that the speech is created—exalted is God, Mighty and Majestic, above that—and he claims that a created thing claims Lordship, and this is among the ugliest and most repugnant of statements.'
And it is said to him: 'O heretic, is it permissible for other than God to say: (Indeed, I am God)? We seek refuge in God that the one who says this could be a Muslim. This is a disbeliever; he is asked to repent. If he repents and returns from his evil doctrine [it is accepted], and if not, the Imam kills him. If the Imam does not kill him and does not ask him to repent, and it is known of him that this is his doctrine: he is boycotted, not spoken to, not greeted with peace, not prayed behind, his testimony is not accepted, and a Muslim does not marry his noble daughter to him.'" End quote.
See: Al-Ibāna al-Kubrā (Chapter on affirming that God, Blessed and Exalted, spoke to Moses, and clarifying the disbelief of the one who rejects and denies it).
I say: And reflect upon these creeds that were previously attributed to the Ashʿarites alongside this statement by an Imam from the Imams of the Predecessors (Salaf) and the Sunna:
ʿAmr b. al-ʿAbbās said: "I heard ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. Mahdī when it was said to him: 'The Jahmiyya say: The Qurʾān is created.'
