and al-Jubbāʾī and his son, who are the prized ornaments of his religion.

The Muʿtazilah’s Ignorance of the Book and the Sunnah

(The Muʿtazilah’s Ignorance of the Book and the Sunnah) They are a people who have not made it part of their religion to know even a single verse of the Book of Allah, whether by recitation or understanding. Nor have they reflected upon the meaning of a verse and then explained or interpreted it in accordance with the understanding of the righteous scholars of the ummah who came before—except according to the novel opinions they have introduced. Their feet have never gathered dust in pursuit of a single sunnah, nor have they learned a single matter from the laws of Islam.

Yet he regards the opinions of these men as wisdom, knowledge, proofs, and evidences, while he considers the Book of Allah and the sunnah of His Messenger to be mere superfluous material and blind imitation, and their bearers