‘Uthmaan ibn Sa‘eed ad-Daarimi (d. 280 – may Allah have mercy on him) said:
Praise be to Allah, may He be exalted, we know about the concept of metaphors from the language of the Arabs, which you have taken and used to confuse and mislead the ignorant. By means of this concept you denied the reality of the divine attributes, on the basis of the metaphor argument. But we say: It is wrong to judge the most common style in the Arabic language on the basis of its rarest style; rather we should understand the statements of the Arabs on the basis of the most common style, unless you can produce proof that what is meant here is the rarer style (namely metaphor). This is the approach that is most fair, and it is not right to approach the divine attributes that are well known and understood as they appear to be by people of common sense, and twist the meaning on the grounds that these are metaphors. (Naqd ad-Darimi ‘ala Bishr al-Mireesi, 2/755)
Al-Darimi said: “And we also takfeer them because of what is known from their kufr by everybody: that they don’t acknowledge that Allah exalted is He has a face or that He can hear and see and talk or that He has knowledge or any other attribute except when they give an erroneous interpretation (ie that Allah spoke without sound and other things, audhu billah).” (Al-Radd ala Al-Jahmiyya p. 199 nr. 367)
Ibn Mindah said:
Interpretation (ta’wil) is viewed by ahlu l-hadith as a form of denial. (Al-Radd ‘ala Al-Jahmiyya)