meaning Ibn Rāhwayh - : Upon the Throne with Al-Ḥadd? He said: Yes, with Al-Ḥadd. And he mentioned about Ibn al-Mubārak, he said: He is upon His Throne, distinct from His creation, with Al-Ḥadd.
And Ḥarb b. Ismāʿīl also mentioned at the end of his book on all the "Issues": This is the school of law of the imams of knowledge, the people of narrations, and the people of the Sunna known for it, who are emulated in it, and I found those whom I found among the scholars of the people of Iraq, the Levant, the Hijaz, and others upon it. So whoever opposes anything of these schools of law, or attacks them, or faults the one who states them, then he is an innovator, outside the congregation, deviating from the methodology of the Sunna and the path of truth. And it is the school of law of Aḥmad, Isḥāq b. Ibrāhīm b. Makhlad, ʿAbdullāh b. al-Zubayr al-Ḥumaydī, Saʿīd b. Manṣūr, and others among those with whom we sat and from whom we took knowledge. And it was from their statement: Faith is speech and action - until he said: And God created seven heavens, some above others, and the narration of his statement has preceded... - until his statement - : Because God, Blessed and Exalted, is upon the Throne above the highest seventh heaven, knowing all of that, and He is distinct from His creation, no place is devoid of His knowledge. And God has a Throne, and the Throne has bearers who carry it, and it has Al-Ḥadd, God Almighty knows best its Al-Ḥadd; and God Almighty is upon His Throne, mighty is His remembrance, and exalted is His majesty, and there is no deity other than Him.
But this wording allows for Al-Ḥadd in it to refer back to the Throne; rather, that is more apparent in it.
يعني ابن راهويه - : على العرش بحدّ؟
قال: نعم بحدّ.
وذكر عن ابن المبارك، قال: هو على عرشه بائن من خلقه بحد.
وقد ذكر أيضًا حربُ بن إسماعيل في آخر كتابه في «المسائل» كلها: هذا مذهب أئمة العلم، وأصحاب الأثر، وأهل السنة المعروفين بها، المُقتدى بهم فيها، وأدركت من أدركت من علماء أهل العراق والشام، والحجاز، وغيرهم عليها، فمن خالف شيئًا من هذه المذاهب، أو طعن فيها، أو عاب قائلَها فهو مبتدع، خارج عن الجماعة، زائل عن منهج السنة، وسبيل الحق، وهو مذهب أحمد، وإسحاق بن إبراهيم ابن مخلد، وعبد الله بن الزبير الحميدي، وسعيد بن منصور، وغيرهم ممن جالسنا وأخذنا عنهم العلم، فكان من قولهم: إن الإيمان قول وعمل - إلى أن قال: وخلق الله سبع سموات بعضها فوق بعض، وقد تقدم حكاية قوله .. - إلى قوله - : لأن الله تبارك وتعالى على العرش فوق السماء السابعة العليا يَعْلَمُ ذلك كلَّه، وهو بائن من خلقه، لا يخلو من علمه مكان، ولله عرشٌ، وللعرش حملةٌ يحملونه، وله حدّ، الله تعالى أعلم بحده؛ والله تعالى على عرشه عزَّ ذكرُه، وتعالى جده، ولا إله غيره.
ولكن هذا اللفظ يحتمل أن يعود فيه الحدّ إلى العرش، بل ذلك أظهر فيه.
- قال القاضي أبو يعلى في كتاب «إبطال التأويل»: رأيت بخطّ أبي
