the majority of them who upheld affirmation, while most of the Imāmiyyah explicitly professed corporealism.

I say: The followers of ʿAmr ibn ʿUbayd are the Muʿtazilah, for ʿAmr was the first leader who devised the religion of the Muʿtazilah, together with Wāsil ibn ʿAtāʾ.