Dividing the attributes into psychological and conceptual

Question:
Honorable Shaykh, who is the best person to divide the attributes in tawhid (the oneness of Allah) into psychological attributes, asserting their existence, and conceptual attributes? Is there any basis for this?

Answer:
O my brothers, the rule here is this: Do not go beyond the expressions of the Salaf (the earliest generations), do not introduce new phrases, and do not coin new terms, even if so-and-so or so-and-so among the contemporary scholars has said them. Do not accept this. The expressions of the Salaf are scholarly expressions, and the Salaf are more truthful than us in this field. As far as I know, they did not mention these things. We restrict ourselves to the expressions of the Salaf: essential attributes and action attributes. This is what they mentioned. Essential attributes are those that are inseparable from the Essence, such as life, knowledge, and power, and so on. Action attributes are things like creation, provision, descent, rising above the Throne, and coming. These are the attributes of the Exalted. Allah, if He wills (Glorified and Exalted is He). Yes.
As for these classifications and convolutions, they are not found in the speech of the Salaf. Beware of them. Leave them alone, even if the one saying them is a mujtahid (a scholar qualified to derive rulings) with a rank of knowledge. But this is a dangerous field and a field of pitfalls, a pitfall of misunderstandings. It is not fitting for a person to think up something on his own, even if he claims he wants to clarify, define, and specify. Yes, how many people have erred through these convolutions and innovations that the Salaf did not say and did not speak about. Yes.