the position of the people of the Sunnah and hadith, and stated that “he himself holds this view.” We have quoted his wording elsewhere. And these books written by their scholars, such as Abū al-Hasan al-Tamīmī and his family, al-Qādī Abū Ya'lā, Abū al-Wafā Ibn 'Aqīl, and Abū al-Hasan ibn al-Zāghūnī