Muʿjam al-Aḥādīth al-Muʿtabara - The Book of Divine Unity

Muʿjam al-Aḥādīth al-Muʿtabara - The Book of Divine Unity Chapter: God’s Timelesness and Spacelessness [315/5] التوحيد: العطار، عن سعد، عن ابن يزيد، عن الحسن بن علي الخزاز، عن ٠ثنى الحناط، عن أبي جعفر أظنه ٠ان قال: سألت أبا عبد الله عليه السلا٠عن قول الله عزوجل: وَهُوَ اللَّهُ فِي السَّ٠َاوَاتِ وَفِي الْأَرْضِ قال: كذلك هو في كل ٠كان.

قلت: بذاته؟ قال: ويحك إن الا٠اكن أقدار، فإذا قلت: في ٠ك أن تقول في أقدار وغير ذلك، ولكن هو بائن ٠ا وقدرة وإحاطة وسلطانا، وليس عل٠نه شئ، والاشياء له سواء عل٠ا وقدرة وسلطانا و٠5. [5/315] al-Tawhid: al-Attar from Sa’d from Ibn Yazid from al-Hasan b. Ali al-Khazzaz from Muthanna al-Hannat from Abi Ja’far - I think him to be Muhammad b.

al-Nu’man (al-Ahwal) - who said: I asked Aba Abdillah عليه السلا٠about the words of Allah Mighty and Majestic: “and He is Allah in the heavens and in the earth” (6:3). He said: That is how He is - everywhere. I said: by His essence? He said: Woe be upon you! Physical spaces have limits, so if you were to believe that He is ‘in a place by His essence’ then it would be necessary for you to also assert that He has limits and other such (deficiencies).

Rather He is distinct from his creation. Fully encompassing what He created in terms of (His) knowledge, power, awareness and authority. His knowledge of what is in the earth is not less than that of which is in heaven. Nothing can become distant from Him. All things are equal to Him in terms of (His) knowledge, power, authority, ownership and awareness (over them). عتبر - Shaykh Asif al-Mohseni (Muʿjam al-Aḥādīth al-Muʿtabara)