that time, some of them came to agree with the Muʿtazila in their doctrines of divine oneness and justice. The Muʿtazila were their teachers. Thus, what appears in the writings of Ibn al-Nuʿmān al-Mufīd and his two associates—Abū Jaʿfar al-Tūsī and the one known as al-Murtadā—and others like them derives from the teachings of the Muʿtazila. At that time, there also came to be among