Among the scholars of al-Jazirah and the frontier regions were Hamid ibn Yahya al-Balkhi; Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn Yazid al-Aslami al-Tarsusi; Ibrahim ibn Sa'id al-Jawhari al-Baghdadi, who resided in Rayy; Sa'id ⦗362⦘ ibn Rahmah al-Massisi; Ahmad ibn Harb al-Mawsili; Muhammad ibn Ayyub al-Isfahani; Muhammad ibn Jabalah al-Rafiqi; Zarqan ibn Muhammad al-Baghdadi, who resided in Tarsus; Ya'qub ibn Ibrahim al-Khashshab; 'Ali ibn Musa al-Qazwini, who resided in Tarsus; Ahmad ibn Sharik al-Sijzi; Nasr ibn Mansur al-Massisi; and 'Abd al-'Aziz ibn Ahmad ibn Shabbuyah.
537 — They said: “Whoever claims that the Quran is created is a disbeliever in Allah the Almighty. Whoever says, ‘I do not know whether the Quran is created or uncreated,’ is doubtful concerning his religion, until he knows that the speech of his Lord is uncreated.” This is the wording of the scholars of the frontier regions; the wording of the rest conveys the same meaning.