Allah and His Messenger.

The type of innovation that marks a man as one of the people of misguided desires is that which the scholars devoted to the Sunnah know to be openly at odds with the Book and the Sunnah—such as the innovations of the Khawarij, the Rafidah, the Qadariyyah, and the Murji’ah.

ʿAbd al-Rahman ibn Mahdi said, “There are two groups—so beware of them: the Jahmiyyah and the Rafidah. These two are the worst of the innovators.”⦗1⦘

ʿAbd Allah ibn al-Mubarak said, “The Jahmiyyah are disbelieving heretics.”

Salam ibn Abi Mutiʿ said, “These Jahmiyyah are disbelievers.”

Ibrahim ibn Tahman said, “The Jahmiyyah are disbelievers.”

ʿAbd al-Wahhab al-Warraq said, “The Jahmiyyah are disbelievers, heretics, and polytheists.”

Yazid ibn Harun said, “By Allah, they are heretics; may Allah curse them.”

Kharijah ibn Musʿab said, “The Jahmiyyah have fallen into disbelief in more than one place in the Book of Allah.”

ʿAbd al-Hamid al-Himmani said, “Jahm is an unbeliever in Allah.”

Ahmad ibn Ibrahim al-Dawraqi said, “Bishr al-Mirisi and Abu Bakr al-Asam are disbelievers whose blood is licit.”

Qutaybah ibn Saʿid said, “Bishr al-Mirisi is a disbeliever.”

ʿAbd al-Rahman ibn Mahdi said, “If the matter were up to me, I would station myself on the bridge, and no one who says, ‘The Qur’an is created,’ would pass by me without my striking his neck and throwing him off.”