11. What Ahmad ibn al-Hasan al-Qittan said with that Ahmad ibn Yahya ibn Zakariyya alQittan said, on the authority of Bakr ibn `Abd Allah ibn Hubayb that Tamim ibn Bahlul said, on the authority of his father, on the authority of Sulayman ibn Hafs al-Marwazi, on the authority of Sulayman ibn Mihran that I asked Ja`far ibn Muhammad , “Is it permissible for you to say: Verily, Allah, the Mighty and High, is in a place?”

Thus, he replied, “Glory be to Allah, and Exalted be He, from that! Verily, if He were subjected to space, He would have been caused since anything that exists in a place is in need of space. Anything that is in need of space is accidental, because the Eternal has no needs.