the Mu'tazilah: the method of accidents and temporal occurrences.

As for the question of the soul, he agrees with their position because he believes their method to be sound.

Ibn Rushd criticizes Abū Hāmid for the very things for which Muslim scholars praise and esteem him, and praises him for the things for which Muslim scholars criticize him, although they may say that he retracted those views. For Abū Hāmid sometimes opposes the philosophers and sometimes agrees with them. Muslim scholars therefore criticize him for agreeing with them in opinions contrary to the truth with which Allah sent Muhammad—may Allah bless him and grant him peace—in accord with authentic transmitted evidence and clear reason. Objections to various points in his statements appear in the remarks of his companion Abū al-Hasan al-Marghīnānī, Abū Nasr al-Qushayrī, Abū Bakr al-Tarshūshī, Abū Bakr ibn al-'Arabī, and Abū