If a person were to speak about one of the attributes of Allah the Exalted in the way the Asha'irah do, would we say that he is an Ash'ari?

Question : Regarding the position of the people of the Sunnah and the community toward the Asha'irah. Some people, when it is mentioned that so-and-so is an Ash'ari—even among the early scholars, for example, if it is said that so-and-so is an Ash'ari—they recoil from him and launch attacks against him. So what we clarify is...

Answer : The reality is that the term "Ash'ari" is an independent methodology, not limited to the names and attributes, but extending to the matters of the Hereafter. However, if a person were to speak about one of the attributes of Allah in the way the Asha'irah do, we do not say that he is an Ash'ari, nor do we label him as such. The evidence for this is: if a man from the Hanbalis, known to be a Hanbali, chose the position of al-Shafi'i in one of the issues, would we say that he is a Shafi'i?
We do not say that. For this reason, some of the deep scholars, whose guidance is sincere, shunned the books of Ibn Hajar, al-Nawawi, and the like, and said that they were Asha'irah, even though they had a great hand in purifying the Sunnah, defending it, and protecting it. How can we make people recoil from this?
So we say: if he errs in one of the issues, it does not mean that he is astray in everything. The Ash'ari school is a methodology, a complete school of thought, and they are not destitute in the attributes. Is that clear? Good.