‘Unknown.’

I say: His name is omitted from the printed edition of al-Sunnah, p. 71.

23 – ʿAbbād ibn al-ʿAwām, the traditionist of Wāsiṭ (d. 185 AH).

156 – ʿAbbād ibn al-ʿAwām said: “I debated Bishr al-Marrīsī and his companions and found that the conclusion of everything they say is: ‘There is nothing in heaven.’ I hold that such people should neither be married nor inherited from.”

137 – I say: ʿAbd Allāh cited this in al-Sunnah (pp. 13 and 32) through Yaḥyā ibn Ismāʿīl al-Wāsiṭī—a man from whom a number of reliable transmitters narrated, though he himself was never declared trustworthy—stating: “I heard ʿAbbād ibn al-ʿAwām…,” but omitting the words, “I hold that….” That addition is found, however, in al-Sunnah (p. 25) from ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Mahdī, who said: “There are no partisans of desire worse than the Jahmites; all their argument circles back to saying, ‘There is nothing in heaven.’ By Allah, I hold that they should neither be married nor inherited from.”

24 – The judge Abū Yūsuf (d. 182 AH).

157 – It is firmly established that Abū Yūsuf—may Allah have mercy on him—said:
“Whoever seeks religion through kalām (dialectical theology) becomes a heretic; whoever seeks wealth through al-kīmiyāʾ (alchemy) goes bankrupt; and whoever chases the rarities of hadith ends up a liar.”

138 – Al-Harawī transmitted this statement in Dhamm al-Kalām (6/104/1) through two separate chains reaching Abū Yūsuf, and Ibn Taymiyyah unequivocally attributed it to him in his treatise al-Jawāb al-Fāṣil, preserved among the manuscripts of the Islamic Library.

Al-Harawī also recorded it (5/94/2) from Mālik with the same wording.

158 – Bashshār ibn Mūsā al-Khiffāf related:
Bishr ibn al-Walīd al-Kindī came to the judge Abū Yūsuf and said, “You forbid me from kalām, while Bishr al-Marrīsī and ʿAlī al-Aḥwal engage in it!” He asked, “What do they say?” He replied, “They say, ‘Allah is in every place.’” Abū Yūsuf said, “Bring them here.” They went to them, and Bishr al-Marrīsī had already stood up