Part of my fuller reply was to point out that the Karrāmiyyah, who espouse corporealism, are all Ḥanafīs.

I then discussed the word ḥashawiyyah (1) and said: This term was first coined by the Muʿtazilites. They call the mainstream community—the broad majority—ḥashw, just as the Rāfiḍites call them al-jumhūr. The ḥashw of the people (2) are the ordinary masses, the general public, as opposed to the distinguished elite (3).

The first to use this label was ʿAmr ibn ʿUbayd, who said, “ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿUmar was a ḥashawī.” Thus the Muʿtazilites branded the Sunni majority ḥashw (4).

The first person to say that Allah is a body was Hishām ibn al-Ḥakam, the Rāfiḍī.

I said to that shaykh, “Who among our scholars (5) is a ḥashawī in the sense you intend—al-Athram, Abū Dāwūd, al-Marwazī, al-Khallāl, Abū Bakr ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz, Abū al-Ḥasan al-Tamīmī, Ibn Ḥāmid, Qāḍī Abū Yaʿlā, Abū al-Khaṭṭāb, Ibn ʿAqīl?”

I raised my voice and said, “Name them! Tell me who they are—who are they?”

Is the Sacred Law to be overturned on the basis of Ibn al-Khaṭīb’s (6) lies and his fabrications about people’s schools of thought?