his discussion of the eighth generation:

“I asked Yahyā ibn ʿAmmār about Abū Hātim al-Bustī. I said, ‘Did you see him?’ He replied, ‘How could I not have seen him, when we were the ones who expelled him from Sijistān? He possessed extensive knowledge but little piety. He came to us and denied that Allah has a limit, so we expelled him from Sijistān.’”

This is despite the fact that those whose statements Shaykh al-Islām cites include leading authorities in hadith, jurisprudence, Sufism, and other fields. He related their condemnation of the Kullābiyyah, Karrāmiyyah, Ashʿariyyah, and others like them for introducing innovations contrary to the way of the people of the Sunnah and hadith.

Al-Khallāl mentioned in his book