Do the hadiths of the creaking of the Throne, if authentic, undermine the Most High God, given that opponents say they necessitate that God, glory be to Him, is a heavy body?
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The "the creaking of the Throne" has a weak chain of transmission, but some scholars have authenticated it. "Al-ateet" (the creaking) means the sound of heavy weights, and it is an attribute of the Throne, not an attribute of Allah Almighty. Al-Dhahabi cited the hadith to affirm Allah's transcendence above His Throne, not to prove the creaking. Ahl al- neither affirm nor deny the term "body" for Allah. The first three meanings of "body" (a physical body, that which is composed of matter and form, and that which is composed of two substances) are negated from Allah. However, the fourth meaning (the Existent or the Self-Subsisting) is true, but it is not expressed by the term "body" because there is no textual evidence for it. Attributing anthropomorphism to Ahl al-Sunnah is a slander from the people of innovation.
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