Is it true that Abu Hanifa said: "There will be no distance between Him and His creation" concerning the vision of Allah in the Hereafter, or is the correct view that there will be a distance when He is seen?

The paragraph discusses the phrase: "And Allah Almighty will be seen in the Hereafter, and the believers will see Him in Paradise with the eyes of their heads, without resemblance or modality, and there will be no distance between Him and His creation," which is found in the book Al-Fiqh Al-Akbar, attributed to Abu Hanifa.

The attribution of Al-Fiqh Al-Akbar to Abu Hanifa is questioned, as many verifying scholars—including some Hanafi scholars—have attributed it to his student Abu Muti' Al-Balkhi, who is accused of weakness in Hadith and ignorance in creed.

As for the phrase itself, in most versions of Al-Fiqh Al-Akbar, it does not include the word "nor quantity." What is mentioned, "without resemblance or modality," is correct and consistent with the creed of the early Muslims (Salaf) regarding the believers' vision of their Lord in the Hereafter.

However, the addition of the phrase "nor quantity" or "without distance" is a philosophical term introduced by the theologians (Mutakallimun), meaning the negation of corporeality and direction. This contradicts the creed of the Salaf, which rejects delving into such terms and affirms Allah's exaltedness and vision without modality or specifying distance.