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Zaka's avatar

Isn’t izz bin abdussalam who also authored a sharh of aqidah tahawiyyah, an fully fledged athari who followed ibn taymiyya and ibn al qayyim?

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I don't think the asha'ira are saying that the majority of the "ummah" are asharis, they are saying the majority of ahl al-sunnah wal-jama'ah are, and by that they mean the learned scholars amongst them. So when they say "ashari", this automatically excludes any laymen because ascribing oneself to one of these three strands of creedal methodologies requires study generally beyond the ordinary lay person, and Allah knows best.

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