What is your opinion, O Shaykh, regarding the statement of Imam Abu Hanifah in the text of Sharh al-Fiqh al-Akbar by Ali al-Qari, page 51?

The Shaykh: Now that you have understood this reality, I return to what you asked at the beginning: The letters. You can say that Allah is free from the letters known to you and to me, the kind that require a cavity, a tongue, and a palate, and so on. Of course, the Lord of the Worlds is free from all of these things. So when such a report is attributed to Abu Hanifah, I began with a verse: Why? To say: If a statement comes to us from an Imam among the Imams of the Muslims, we do not take this Imam as a god, as the Christians did with Isa. We believe in his leadership, but we do not believe in his infallibility. Is that clear?

The questioner: Yes.

The Shaykh: Therefore, when a statement comes to us from an Imam, the first thing we want to do is verify its attribution to him. After that, if the statement is authentic, we present it to the Book and the Sunnah. We do not believe in a statement like this.