And how striking is the remark transmitted by a number of authorities from Bishr ibn al-Walīd, who said, “I heard Abū Yūsuf declare:
‘Mastery of disputation and kalām is ignorance, while ignorance of disputation and kalām is knowledge.’
I say: A living example of this is the maze of doubts and objections spun by the dialecticians, which they raise in debate over the verses and hadiths dealing with the divine attributes. One faction brands another as unbelievers, whereupon Muʿtazilism, Jahmism, corporealism, and every other affliction arise—may Allah grant us safety.
142 – Abū Isḥāq al-Fazārī, Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad * (ʿ)
The eminent imām, ḥāfiẓ, and combatant in the path of Allah: Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥārith ibn Asmāʾ ibn Khārija ibn Ḥiṣn ibn Ḥudhayfa ibn Badr ibn ʿAmr ibn Juwayyah ibn Lawdhān ibn Thaʿlaba ibn ʿAdiyy ibn Fazāra ibn Dhubyān ibn Baghīḍ ibn Rayth ibn Ghaṭafān ibn Saʿd ibn Qays ʿAylān ibn Muḍar ibn Nizār ibn Maʿadd ibn ʿAdnān al-Fazārī, the Syrian.
Their forefather Khārija was a Companion and the brother of ʿUyayna ibn Ḥiṣn.
He narrated from: Abū Isḥāq al-Sabīʿī, Kulayb ibn Wāʾil, ʿAṭāʾ ibn al-Sāʾib, Layth ibn Abī Sulaym, ʿAbd al-Malik ibn ʿUmayr, Suhayl ibn Abī Ṣāliḥ, Aslam al-Minqarī, Abū Isḥāq al-Shaybānī, Hishām ibn ʿUrwa, Ḥumayd al-Ṭawīl, Sulaymān al-Aʿmash, Khālid al-Ḥadhdhāʾ, ʿUbayd Allah ibn ʿUmar, Yaḥyā ibn Saʿīd al-Anṣārī, ʿĀṣim ibn Kulayb, and al-ʿAlāʾ ibn al-Musayyab,