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And likewise what was composed by the advocate of the call to the greatest proclamation and the supreme law.
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The point is that large groups of speculative theologians among the Muʿtazilah—this being the root of the matter—such as Abū ʿAlī, Abū Hāshim, ʿAbd al-Jabbār, and Abū
وكما صنف صَاحب دَعْوَة الْبَلَاغ الْأَكْبَر والناموس الْأَعْظَم
فصل مُهِمّ عَظِيم الْقدر فِي هَذَا الْبَاب وَذَلِكَ أَن طوائف كَبِيرَة من أهل
الْكَلَام من الْمُعْتَزلَة وَهُوَ أصل هَذَا الْبَاب كَأبي على وَأبي هَاشم وَعبد الْجَبَّار وأبى