One must therefore praise what Allah has praised and condemn what Allah Most High has condemned.

As for the names by which schools of thought, doctrines, and groups are known, whether derived from the leader of a school, such as the Jahmiyyah, Azāriqah, Kullābiyyah, Karrāmiyyah, and Ash‘ariyyah, or from a view they hold or an action of theirs—as with the Harūriyyah, so called because they gathered at Harūrā’, and also called the Khawārij and the Māriqah because of their departure from Islam; and as with the Rāfidah, so called because they rejected Zayd ibn ‘Alī ibn al-Husayn for his loyalty to Abū Bakr and ‘Umar; and likewise