12- ʿAbd al-Wahhāb b. ʿAlī al-Subkī (d. 771 AH).
In his book Ṭabaqāt al-Shāfiʿiyya (3/132-133).
He is among those who deny the elevation of Allah, the Exalted, over His creation and His establishment over His Throne. He says in his Ṭabaqāt (9/34) in the biography of Aḥmad b. Yaḥyā b. Ismāʿīl: "...and I came across a work he authored negating direction in refutation of Ibn Taymiyya, which is not bad." End quote.
He commented on the statement of Muḥammad b. ʿAbd al-Malik al-Karajī (d. 532 AH), may Allah have mercy on him, in his poem on the Sunna:
Their creed is that the Deity, by His Essence... is upon His Throne, along with His knowledge of the unseen.
Al-Subkī said in his Ṭabaqāt (6/143): "There is nothing in it whose meaning is objectionable except his statement: (by His Essence)." End quote.
The commentary on the Jahmī negation of the word "(by His Essence)" will come on (p. 127).
13- Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī (d. 852 AH).
Al-Dhahabī commented in al-Mīzān (3/507) on the story of Ibn Ḥibbān's expulsion from Sijistan due to his denial of Al-Ḥadd for Allah, the Exalted, saying: "And he [meaning: the one who affirmed Al-Ḥadd to the one who denied it] said: You have equated your Lord with a non-existent thing, since the non-existent has no limit." End quote.
So Ibn Ḥajar said in Lisān al-Mīzān (5/114), commenting on this statement of al-Dhahabī: "His statement: (You have equated your Lord with a non-existent thing, since the non-existent has no limit) is low [i.e., a baseless statement]. For we do not concede that the statement of lacking a limit leads to equating Him with the non-existent after establishing His existence." End quote.
