Bishr al-Marīsī and his successors that suited his book. He was not, however, a Jahmī of Bishr’s kind; rather, he affirmed attributes that Bishr did not affirm. Abū al-Hasan ibn Mahdī al-Tabarī had preceded him with a short work on interpretation, and his approach was better than that of Abū Bakr ibn Fūrak. The earliest person known to us to have developed these interpretations extensively was Bishr al-Marīsī, although others before him and in his own time shared some of them. These interpretations were in turn taken up