641—‘Abd al-Rahman ibn Abi Hatim mentioned it and said: I heard my father say: “The first to introduce the doctrine that the Quran was created was al-Ja‘d ibn Dirham. He propounded it in the year one hundred and twenty-something AH. Then, after the two of them, came Bishr ibn Ghiyath al-Marisi—may Allah curse him—⦗426⦘ who was a Jewish dyer.”
Sufyan ibn ‘Uyaynah, ‘Abd Allah ibn al-Mubarak, ‘Abbad ibn al-‘Awwam, ‘Ali ibn ‘Asim, Yahya ibn Sa‘id, ‘Abd al-Rahman ibn Mahdi, Waki‘, Abu al-Nadr Hashim ibn al-Qasim, Shababah ibn Sawwar, al-Aswad ibn ‘Amir, Yazid ibn Harun, Bishr ibn al-Walid, Yusuf ibn al-Tabba‘, Sulayman ibn Hassan al-Shami, Muhammad and Ya‘la, the two sons of ‘Ubayd al-Tanafsiyy, ‘Abd al-Razzaq ibn Hammam, Abu Qatadah al-Harrani, ‘Abd al-Malik ibn ‘Abd al-‘Aziz al-Majishun, Muhammad ibn Yusuf al-Firyabi, Abu Nu‘aym al-Fadl ibn Dukayn, ‘Abd Allah ibn Maslamah al-Qa‘nabi, Bishr ibn al-Harith, Muhammad ibn Mus‘ab al-Zahid, Abu al-Bakhtari Wahb ibn Wahb al-Suwa’i al-Madani, the judge of Baghdad, Yahya ibn Yahya al-Naysaburi, ‘Abd Allah ibn al-Zubayr al-Humaydi, ‘Ali ibn al-Madini, ‘Abd al-Salam ibn Salih al-Harawi, and al-Hasan ibn ‘Ali al-Hulwani all declared him to be a disbeliever.