Al-Uqud al-DurriyyaIbn Abd al-Hadi

person who introduced it, and the reason why it first appeared (1).

Moreover, what al-Shahrastani says about the designation mutakallimun is not correct, for the scholastic theologians were already being called by that name before they ever disputed over the kalam question. They used to say of Wasil ibn Ataʾ, “He is a mutakallim,” describing him in that way when people had not yet differed about the doctrine of kalam.

Both I and others have maintained that it was none other than Wasil ibn Ataʾ (2).

I added: Wasil did not come after the death of ʿAmr ibn ʿUbayd; he was his contemporary (3).

It is related that Wasil once delivered a discourse and ʿAmr ibn ʿUbayd remarked, “If a prophet were sent, could he speak more eloquently than this?” (4) His eloquence was so renowned that people said he had a slight lisp, so he carefully avoided the letter r. It is even reported that someone said to him, “The emir has ordered that a well be dug” (5), and he replied, “The commander has instructed that a pit be overturned” (6).

The leading shaykh among them said (7): “There is no doubt that Imam Ahmad is a figure of immense stature,

(1) The words “wa ma kana sababu ibtidaʿiha” (and what occasioned its inception) are absent from manuscript B. (2) Tf alone adds: “that is: not ʿAta ibn Wasil, as the objector claimed.” (3) K reads: “qaribahu” (his kinsman). (4) Q and F read “la-kana” (it would have been); T and Tf read “ma-kana” (it was not); F alone adds “mutakallim” (a speculative theologian). (5) K further inserts: “fi qariʿat al-tariq” (in the middle of the road). (6) K and Tf further add: “fi al-jada” (on the main thoroughfare). (7) K reads “al-mutaqaddim” (the earlier); the phrase “fihim” (among them) is missing from B and Q. Just before this, Tf supplies: “And when the discussion reached what al-Ashari had said ….”
من ابتدعها، وما كان سببُ ابتداعها (١). وأيضًا: فما ذكره الشهرستانيُّ ليس بصحيح في اسم المتكلِّمين، فإنَّ المتكلّمين كانوا يُسَمَّون بهذا الاسم قبل تنازعهم في مسألة الكلام، وكانوا يقولون عن واصل بن عطاء: إنَّه متكلِّم، ويصفونه بالكلام، ولم يكن الناس اختلفوا في مسألة الكلام. وقلتُ أنا وغيري: إنَّما هو واصل بن عطاء (٢). قلتُ: وواصل لم يكن بعد موتِ عَمْرو بن عُبيد، وإنِّما كان قرينَه (٣). وقد رُويَ أنَّ واصلاً تكلَّم مرَّةً بكلام، فقال عَمْرو بن عُبيد: لو بُعِثَ نبيٌّ أكان (٤) يتكلّم بأحسن من هذا، وفصاحتُه مشهورة، حتى قيل: إنَّه كان ألثغ، فكان يحترز عن الرَّاء، حتَّى قيل له: أمرَ الأميرُ أن تُحْفَر بيرٌ (٥). فقال: أوْعزَ القائدُ أن يُقْلَب قليبٌ (٦). قال الشيخ المقدَّم فيهم (٧): لا ريب أنَّ الإمام أحمد إمامٌ عظيم القدر،
(١) «وما كان سبب ابتداعها» سقطت من (ب). (٢) (طف) زيادة: «أي: لا عطاء بن واصل كما ذكره المعترض». (٣) (ك): «قريبه». (٤) (ق، ف): «لكان»، (ط، طف): «ما كان»، (ف): «متكلم». (٥) زاد في (ك): «في قارعة الطريق». (٦) زاد في (ك، طف): «في الجادة». (٧) (ك): «المتقدم»، و «فيهم» ليست في (ب، ق). وقبلها في (طف): «ولما انتهى الكلام إلى ما قاله الأشعري .. ».

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