2. My father, may Allah grant him mercy, said: We were told by Sa’d bin Abdullah, that he said: We were told by Ahmad bin Muhammed bin Khalid, from Muhammed bin ‘Isa, from those he mentioned, that he ascribed to Abu Ja’far, peace be upon him, peace be upon him, that he was asked: Is it permissible to say that Allah is a thing? He said: Yes, as long as one excludes Him from the two limitations; the limitation of incapacitation and the limitation of anthropomorphism.