Siyar Aʿlām al-NubalāʾShams al‑Din al‑Dhahabi

Abū ʿAlī al-Jubbāʾī used to praise him for his keen grasp of dialectical theology, remarking, “Were it not for his madness!”
Among his works are: Denying that human beings create their own acts; Establishing the evidentiary force of accidents; and Proving the indivisible particle.

Among this group is the erudite scholar:

  1. Abū Mūsā ʿĪsā ibn al-Haytham al-Ṣūfī *
    One of the foremost Muʿtazilites, though he disagreed with them on certain issues. Ibn al-Rawandī, the heretic (1), studied under him, and he left behind a number of writings. He died in 245 AH.

Also among them is the scholar:

  1. Abū Yaʿqūb Yūsuf ibn ʿUbayd Allah al-Shahhām **
    of Basra, a companion of Abū al-Hudhayl al-ʿAllāf. He authored The Ability vis-à-vis the Determinists, The Will, Was and Shall Be, The Indicative Force of Accidents, and other works. Abū ʿAlī al-Jubbāʾī was among his students.
(*) Tabaqat al-Muʿtazila, pp. 78–79; Ibn al-Nadim, al-Fihrist, p. 216. (1) See his biography in: Ibn al-Jawzi, al-Muntazam, 6:99–105; al-Fihrist, pp. 216–217; Ibn Kathir, al-Bidaya wa-l-nihaya, 10:346–347; al-Dhahabi, al-Ibar, 2:116; Ibn Hajar, Lisan al-mizan, 1:323–324; Ibn al-Imad, Shadharat al-dhahab, 2:235–236. (* *) Tabaqat al-Muʿtazila, pp. 71–72.
وَكَانَ أَبو عَلِيٍّ الجُبَّائِيُّ يَصِفُهُ بِالحِذْقِ فِي الكَلاَمِ، وَيَقُوْلُ: لَوْلاَ جُنُونُه. وَلَهُ: كِتَابُ (إِنْكَارِ أَنْ يَخْلُقَ النَّاسُ أَفْعَالَهُم) ، وَكِتَابُ (تَثْبِيْتِ دِلاَلَةِ الأَعْرَاضِ) ، وَكِتَابُ (إِثْبَاتِ الجُزْءِ الَّذِي لاَ يَتَجَزَّأُ) . وَمِنْهُمُ العَلاَّمَةُ: ١٨٤ - أَبُو مُوْسَى عِيْسَى بنُ الهَيْثَمِ الصُّوْفِيُّ * مِنْ كِبَارِ المُعْتَزِلَةِ، يُخَالِفُهُمْ فِي أَشْيَاءَ. وَعَنْهُ أَخَذَ: ابْنُ الرَّاوَنْدِيِّ المُلْحِدُ (١) ، وَلَهُ تَوَالِيْفُ. تُوُفِّيَ: سَنَةَ خَمْسٍ وَأَرْبَعِيْنَ وَمائَتَيْنِ. وَمِنْهُمُ العَلاَّمَةُ: ١٨٥ - أَبُو يَعْقُوْبَ يُوْسُفُ بنُ عُبَيْدِ اللهِ الشَّحَّامُ ** البَصْرِيُّ، صَاحِبُ أَبِي الهُذَيْلِ العَلاَّفِ. مُؤَلِّفُ: كِتَابِ (الاسْتِطَاعَةِ عَلَى المُجَبرَةِ) ، وَكِتَابِ (الإِرَادَةِ) ، وَكِتَابِ (كَانَ وَيَكُوْنُ) ، وَكِتَابِ (دِلاَلَةِ الأَعْرَاضِ) ، وَغَيْرِ ذَلِكَ. وَعَنْهُ أَخَذَ: أَبُو عَلِيٍّ الجُبَّائِيُّ.
(*) طبقات المعتزلة: ص ٧٨، ٧٩، الفهرست لابن النديم: ٢١٦. (١) انظر ترجمته في: " المنتظم " لابن الجوزي ٦ / ٩٩ - ١٠٥، " الفهرست ": ٢١٦، ٢١٧، " البداية والنهاية " ١٠ / ٣٤٦، ٣٤٧، " العبر " ٢ / ١١٦، " لسان الميزان " ١ / ٣٢٣، ٣٢٤، " شذرات الذهب " ٢ / ٢٣٥، ٢٣٦. (* *) طبقات المعتزلة: ٧١، ٧٢.

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