Abu al-Hasan al-Ash'ari dies at Baghdad, 324/935-6

وفاة أبي الحسن الأشعري ببغداد، ٣٢٤هـ

c. 936 CE · 324 AH

Baghdad

Abu al-Hasan al-Ash'ari died at Baghdad in 324/935-6, and a group of Hanbalis and scholars joined in finding fault with him 1 2 3. Al-Bayhaqi reports through Zahir ibn Ahmad al-Sarakhsi: when al-Ash'ari's end drew near at his house in Baghdad he summoned me and said, 'Bear witness that I declare no one of the people of the qibla an unbeliever, for all point to one object of worship; all this is but a difference of wording' 1.

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Abbasid Fragmentation
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Levant & Iraq
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920930940950 c.
Abbasid Fragmentation · The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era

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Baghdad

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Abu al-Hasan al-Ash'ari died at Baghdad in 324/935-6, and a group of Hanbalis and scholars joined in finding fault with him 1 2 3.

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Al-Bayhaqi reports through Zahir ibn Ahmad al-Sarakhsi: when al-Ash'ari's end drew near at his house in Baghdad he summoned me and said, 'Bear witness that I declare no one of the people of the qibla an unbeliever, for all point to one object of worship; all this is but a difference of wording' 1.

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Al-Ash'ari moves to Baghdad late in life· Abu al-Hasan al-Ash'ari· Baghdad· Al-Ash'ari composes Maqalat al-Islamiyyin and his refutations of the Mu'tazila· Al-Ash'ari publicly renounces Mu'tazilism in the Great Mosque of Basra, 300/912-13· Al-Ash'ari, al-Jubba'i's pupil at Basra, and the three brothers debate· Abu al-Hasan al-Ash'ari is born at Basra, 260/873-4· The recantation of Abu'l-Wafa' Ibn 'Aqil

Sources

  1. Siyar A'lam al-Nubala' — al-Dhahabi (Dar al-Risala al-Alamiyya edition) , 15/86
  2. Encyclopaedia of Islam, 2nd edition (Leiden: Brill, 1954–2008), 13 volumes , vol. 1 p. 743
  3. al-Fihrist of Ibn al-Nadim , pp. 648-649
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Al-Ash'ari moves to Baghdad late in life

Late in life Abu al-Hasan al-Ash'ari moved to Baghdad, where he lived and taught. A group of imams took from him, among them Abu al-Hasan al-Bahili, Abu al-Hasan al-Kirmani, Abu Zayd al-Marwazi, Abu Abd Allah ibn Mujahid al-Basri, Zahir ibn Ahmad al-Sarakhsi and Abu Sahl al-Su'luki; through these and their like his way in kalam spread until his followers came to be known as the Ash'ariyya. Al-Bayhaqi reports through Zahir ibn Ahmad al-Sarakhsi that al-Ash'ari called him to witness at his house in Baghdad near his death.