Counting the Ash'aris and Maturidis among the Saved Sect
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Question:
May Allah reward you, Honorable Shaykh. This questioner says: The compiler (may Allah have mercy on him) mentioned in his commentary that the Saved Sect consists of the people of Hadith, the Ash'aris, and the Maturidis. Is his statement correct?
Answer:
This is held against him; including the Ash'aris and Maturidis among the people of Athar is an error on his part. He (may Allah have mercy on him) had some oversteppings in his poetry and in his commentary on it, containing some transgressions. This is one of them: he included the Ash'aris with the people of the Sunnah and the people of Athar. The Ash'aris are among the theologians (mutakallimun). The Ash'aris are among the theologians, indeed among the heads of the theologians. It is true that al-Ash'ari (may Allah have mercy on him) returned and repented from the methodology of the theologians to the methodology of the people of the Sunnah, but they did not follow him. Those who claim affiliation with him did not follow him in his return; they remained on the first methodology.
The presenter:
May Allah reward you
May Allah reward you, Honorable Shaykh. This questioner says: The compiler (may Allah have mercy on him) mentioned in his commentary that the Saved Sect consists of the people of Hadith, the Ash'aris, and the Maturidis. Is his statement correct?
Answer:
This is held against him; including the Ash'aris and Maturidis among the people of Athar is an error on his part. He (may Allah have mercy on him) had some oversteppings in his poetry and in his commentary on it, containing some transgressions. This is one of them: he included the Ash'aris with the people of the Sunnah and the people of Athar. The Ash'aris are among the theologians (mutakallimun). The Ash'aris are among the theologians, indeed among the heads of the theologians. It is true that al-Ash'ari (may Allah have mercy on him) returned and repented from the methodology of the theologians to the methodology of the people of the Sunnah, but they did not follow him. Those who claim affiliation with him did not follow him in his return; they remained on the first methodology.
The presenter:
May Allah reward you
Source
شرح العقيدة السفارينية [3] — alfawzan.live (46:32)
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