First: That nothing among the created beings encompasses Him, Glory be to Him and Exalted is He, as He says: {Vision perceives Him not, but He perceives [all] vision; and He is the Subtle, the Acquainted} [Al-Anʿam: 103], and His saying: {and they do not encompass Him in knowledge} [Taha: 110].
Second: The negation of the creation's knowledge of His limit (hadd), Glory be to Him; for none knows the modality (kayfiyyah) of His limit except He, Glorified be He.
Abu al-Qasim al-Taymi al-Asbahani (may Allah have mercy upon him) said: "If the speaker's intent in saying 'He has no limit' is that the knowledge of the creation does not encompass Him, then he is correct. If his intent thereby is that Allah's knowledge does not encompass Himself, then he is astray. Or if his intent is that Allah is everywhere in His Essence, then he is also astray." [Its documentation will follow under No. 4].
Among those from whom it was reported that he negated the limit and affirmed it is Imam Ahmad ibn Hanbal (may Allah have mercy upon him).
Shaykh al-Islam Ibn Taymiyyah (may Allah have mercy upon him) stated in Bayan Talbis al-Jahmiyyah (1/433)—and see his words likewise in Darʾ al-Taʿarud (2/33-36)—after citing the words of Imam Ahmad (may Allah have mercy upon him) regarding the negation of the limit:
"This statement from Imam Abu ʿAbd Allah Ahmad (may Allah have mercy upon him) clarifies that he negated that the servants define a limit (yahuddun) for Allah the Exalted, or for His attributes, or that they determine that by a measure, or that they reach the point of describing that. This does not contradict what preceded regarding the affirmation that He, in Himself, has a limit which He knows and none other than Him knows, or that He describes Himself. Likewise is the speech of the rest of"
