Hadith 216

‘Al Tawheed’ – Ibn Al Waleed, from Muhammad al Attar, from Al Ash’ary, from Muhammad Bin Isa, from Hisham Bin Ibrahim Al Abbasy who said, ‘I said to him-asws – meaning Abu Al-Hassan-asws, ‘May I be sacrificed for you-asws! One of your-asws friends instructed me that I ask you-asws about an issue’. He-asws said: ‘And who is he? ’ I said, ‘Al Hassan Bin Sahl’. He-asws said: ‘And regarding which thing is the question? ’ I said, ‘Regarding the Tawheed’. He-asws said: ‘And which thing from the Tawheed? ’ He (the narrator) said, ‘He asks you-asws about Allah-azwj, whether He-azwj is a body or not a body? ’
He-asws said to me: ‘The people regarding the Tawheed are of three doctrines – Proving with resembling Him-azwj, and a doctrine of the negation, and a doctrine of proving without resembling Him-azwj. The doctrine of the proving with resemblance is not allowed, and the doctrine of the negation is not allowed, and the path in the third doctrines is proving without resembling Him-azwj’’. [151]