And from the speech of Ibn Taymiyya, may Allah have mercy on him, on this issue throughout his books:
— He said in [Bayān Talbīs al-Jahmiyya (2/527)]:
Indeed, many of the Imams of the Sunna and Hadith, or most of them, say: ("He is above His heavens, over His Throne, distinct from His creation with a limit"). And among them are those who did not use the term "limit" unrestrictedly, and some of them rejected the limit. End quote.
And he said in [Bayān Talbīs al-Jahmiyya (3/591)]:
It is established from the Imams of the Predecessors (Salaf) that they said: "Allah has a limit," and that none knows it other than Him, and that He is distinct from His creation. The people of Hadith and the Sunna have authored works on this. This is the meaning of spatial confinement according to those of the early generations who spoke of it, for the dispute among them is often verbal. However, the people of the Sunna and Hadith observe the wordings of the texts and the wordings of the Predecessors (Salaf). Many of those who seek that believe in wordings whose meanings they do not understand, and one might believe in a wording while belying another meaning, his utmost being that it contains some of the meaning of the wording he believed in. End quote.
— And he also said, may Allah have mercy on him, in Bayān Talbīs al-Jahmiyya (3/683):
And they [the Imams of the Sunna] mentioned... that Jahm and his followers were the first to invent these negative attributes in Islam, and the invalidation of their opposites, such as their statement: "He is not above the world, nor is He inside the world, nor outside it, nor is He in one place rather than another, nor is He spatially confined, nor a substance, nor a body, nor having an end, nor a limit," and similar expressions. For all of these expressions, and what resembles them, are not transmitted from anyone