of predestination and faith, and they likewise come close to him in denying the divine attributes.

The Kullābiyyah and the Ashʿariyyah are better than these sects in the matter of the attributes, for they affirm for God the rational attributes, and their leading scholars, in general, also affirm the attributes established by transmitted reports, as their statements have been detailed elsewhere.

With respect to predestination and the questions of “names and rulings,” however, their views are largely the same.

The Kullābiyyah are the followers of Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd Allāh ibn Saʿīd ibn Kullāb, whom al-Ashʿarī followed, and the adherents of Ibn Kullāb,