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As for the terms “body,” “substance,” “space-occupying entity,” “accident,” “composite,” and similar technical expressions employed by disputants among the ahl al-kamm in arguing from their meanings for the temporal origination of the world and the existence of the Maker, and in making affirmations and negations about Allah, such usage is not known from any of the early generations of this community or its imams whom Allah made leaders of Ahl al-Sunnah wa-l-Jamā‘ah in knowledge and religion. Rather, what has been preserved from them