In his Sharhu Sahihi Muslim, volume 3, part 5, page 24, AnNawawi records:
Eyad, the judge, states:
Including jurisprudents and hadithists, Muslims unanimously rest upon that the skyey phenomena mentioned in the Holy Quran should not be taken for their preliminary meaning of their aspects. The entire Muslims found interpretation for such expressions.
An-Nawawi, in volume 5, part 9, page 117 of the same reference, records the following: Eyad, the judge, states:
Al-Marizi interprets 'Yadnu' come close mentioned in the Holy Quran, as coming close of His mercy and dignity. It does not stand for the material closeness which is connected to distance and contiguity.
In Jami'ul-Ahadithil-Qudsiyyeti Mines-Sihah, part 1 page 74, the following is recorded:
An-Nawawi: This is one of the divine attributes texts. Two trends are regarded to the idea of this text. Trend of majority of theologists and a good number of the worthy ancestors is that the most fitting interpretation should be found for explicating such hadiths. Hence, Malik Bin Anas interpreted the most suitable meaning. He stated, "His mercy and affairs or angels are the things descended in stages."
On page 160 of part 1 of the same reference, the following is written down:
The ever first matter to be believed is promoting Allah, the Exalted, against qualities of His creatures. Believing in a contrary matter is actually prejudicing faithfulness. Unanimously, the entire master Muslims agreed upon the fact that it is imperative to believe in the unintendedness of the extrinsic meanings thrown by Quranic Verses respecting Allah's attributes and ascribing material attributes to Him, the Exalted. It is inapplicable to accredit the apparent meanings of Quranic Verses to Allah, the Exalted.
The following is recorded in part 1 page 167 of the same reference:
In his Sharhul-Ahadith, Al-Mazini states:
This is among the matters obligatorily interpreted. It comprises God's having a hand. This may lead to the Lord's corporeality and limitedness.
In Siyeru A'laminNubela, part 8 page 243, At-Thehbi states:
At-Tufi: Scholars and regardable individuals unanimously agreed on the metaphoricality of this expression, and the metonymically statement of Allah's giving victory, aid and support to His slave. He, the Exalted, corresponds His divine Entity to instrumentalities used by His slaves. "By - through - Me he perceives. By me he sees. By me he strikes. By me he walks." This is a piece of a hadith.
For Wahabists, as it will be detailedly debated soon, they rule that interpretation of the Holy Quran and hadiths is wholly deviation from God's right path and atheism. Correspondingly, they must have ruled of the deviation and atheism of all of those who interpreted, including Ibn Khuzeima, their master in conception of Allah's corporeity. Bin Baz, however, advises of reviewing Ibn Khuzeima's books.
