the Mu‘tazilah, so called because they withdrew from the adherents of the community among al-Hasan al-Basrī’s followers and others like them; and the Mujassimah, so called because they follow those who say that He is a body; and the Mu‘attilah, so called because they negate the attributes, since this entails negating the divine essence; and as when it is said that the Zanādiqah are