[The words of Abū al-Ḥasan al-Ashʿarī in al-Maqālāt]:
Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn Ismāʿīl al-Ashʿarī—the theologian after whom the Ashʿarite school of kalām is named—said in the work he composed, Ikhtilāf al-Musallīn wa Maqālāt al-Islāmiyyīn, in which he also enumerates the various Rāfiḍite sects,