#mutakallim

Ibn Taymiyyah and Ibn Al-Qayyim were not the first to say that Ahlul-Kalām (and the Ash'aris) are Ahlul-Bid'ah. And a response to the innovator who uses philosophy and argumentation to establish his religion.

Those who claim that Shaikh Al-Islam Ibn Taymiyyah and his student Al-Imam Ibn Al-Qayyim (may Allah’s mercy be upon them both) were the first to apply the label of Ahlul-Bid’ah upon the Ash’aris are either deceived, ignorant or misguided. These great scholars did not speak except that which the Salaf had already affirmed. Furthermore, the early scholars of Ahlus-Sunnah wal-Jamā’ah warned against…