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Abu Ibrahim's avatar

I don't think the "Ash'aris were predominant therefore they were (probably) right" line of argument is as important/common as the more salient "Ash'aris were predominant therefore they weren't *deviants*" line of argument (because, you can still be wrong and accept difference of opinion).

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muhammad's avatar

The Ash'ari differ from the Companions of the Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace, and the Tabi'in and the tabi' tabi'iin in Aqiidah and many other things, and their founder, that they attribute their ascription to Abu Al-Hasan Al-Ash'ari, was not the same in belief as they are. Rather, it was the ash'ari belief (similar, if not the same, as the that of the Mu'tazila) he left to make the school, had subsequent generations not come back to that belief what he left behind. NOT that both were opposed to the prophet's and the companions and the 4 imams and about 200 years following the prophet. Imam Ahmed bin Hanbal was beet and tortured because he refused to subscribe to it.

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