Why didn’t you respond to him?” – Ibn Qudaamah

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Ibn Al-Subki narrated:

“And it’s narrated that Ibn Asaakir passed by Ibn Qudamah, and he greeted him but Ibn Qudamah did not respond to him. He was asked:

“Why didn’t you respond to him?”
Ibn Qudamah replied:

“He believes in Kalam Al-Nafsi (an Ash’aree belief that actions such as speech oppose Allah’s special quality of being eternal, therefore Allah is eternally speaking within Himself), so I responded to him fee-nafsi (within myself)”.
[Tabaqaat Al-Shafi'iyah, 8/184]

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