Mujāhid and his associate, Judge Abū Bakr, and Abū ʿAlī ibn Shādhān and others like them—did not go as far in negation as the Ashʿarīs of Khurāsān, such as Abū Bakr ibn Fūrak and others. Rather, the latter added further negations to Abū al-Hasan’s doctrine and left out some of what he affirmed. Thus, the statements of Abū al-Hasan al-Ashʿarī and Abū Saʿīd ibn Kullāb, as recorded by Abū Bakr ibn Fūrak in his compilation of their statements and exposition of their doctrines, contain things that contradict