and more numerous than these, from among the people of the Sunnah and hadith and others. Other groups among Ahmad’s followers and others agree with him on the broad substance of what he stated, even though they dispute certain points with him. These are more numerous and more eminent than those inclined toward negation, and include al-Sharīf Abū Ja‘far and Abū al-Hasan al-Qazwīnī