The Ash'ariyyah's Affirmation of the Attributes and Their Contradiction of the People of the Sunnah

Question:
Some say that the Ash'ariyyah affirm following the Book, and in that they agree with the people of the Sunnah and the community. Does this differ from their affirmation?

Answer:
Yes, this is correct. They affirmed seven attributes, and some of them affirmed fourteen attributes and denied the rest. They denied the attributes of the jinn. This is misguidance, without doubt. The door of the attributes is one; it is obligatory to affirm them all, and one does not affirm some and deny others. They say that we affirmed these seven attributes because reason indicates them; reason indicates them. We say that reason also indicates the remaining attributes.
Yes. And their affirmation of them is not like the affirmation by the Sunnah and the community. The Sunnah and the community affirm them by the Book and the Sunnah. These people say, "No, we affirm them by reason, by the book of reason." This is contrary to the methodology of the people of the Sunnah. Yes. It is possible.