In ''al-Fatawa al-Hindiyyah'' it is said that attributing a place to Allah is disbelief?

 In the book ''al-Fatawa al-Hindiyyah'' compiled by shaykh Nidham and a group of 500 scholars, it is mentioned that: (/it is said:)
 ''يكفر بإثبات المكان لله تعالى ''

'' Whoever attributes a place to Allah ta'ala has disbelieved ''

Following on from this it says:

'' ولو قال الله تعالى في السماء، فإن قصد به حكاية ما جاء فيه ظاهر الأخبار لا يكفر و إن أراد به المكان يكفر ''

'' And if he says, '' Allahu fi's-sama '' , [there are two cases:] if his aim was to simply repeat what has been transmitted to us in its apparent manner from the texts, then he has not disbelieved, but if through this, he desires 'the place' then he has disbelieved ''

Useful infomation :

- al-Fatawa al-Hindiyyah is a compilation of fatawa from Hanafi scholars from Asia, mainly from the Indian sub-continent (India, Pakistan, Bangladesh...) that gathers together nearly all the opinions of the Hanafi school, and until today it is a reference with regards to the rulings of that school. It was written more than 300 years ago.
- It is said that 500 scholars from the Indian sub-continent worked on this compilation (a group of scholars from each stated was in charge of one chapter), and they would only write a fatwa when there was no dispute about it.
- The original title of this compilation is Fatawa-e-Alamgiri, in persian, from the name of sultan Aurangzed, deceased in 1707, who had facilitated the compilation of these fatawa. They were quickly renamed ''al-Fatawa al-Hindiyyah'' in arabic.
- Here (/In it) it is clearly stated that attributing a place to Allah is disbelief. And also, he who says '' Allahu fi's-sama '' through these words, aiming to attribute a place to Allah. has also disbelieved.