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al-Jubba'i

الجبائي شيخ المعتزلة

c. 915 CE · 303 AH

Abu Ali Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab ibn Salam ibn Khalid al-Jubba'i, one of the imams of the Mu'tazila; he was an imam in kalam and the leading theologian of his age. He took this discipline from Abu Yusuf Ya'qub ibn Abd Allah al-Shahham al-Basri, head of the Mu'tazila in Basra, and from him Abu al-Hasan al-Ash'ari, shaykh of the Sunna, took the science of kalam 1.

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The Early Abbasid Caliphate
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Abu 'Ali Muhammad b. 'Abd al-Wahhab b. Sallam b. Khalid al-Jubba'i, one of the imams of the Mu'tazila; an imam in kalam and chief of the mutakallimun of his era — he took this science from Abu Yusuf Ya'qub b. 'Abdallah al-Shahham of Basra, chief of Basra's Mu'tazila — and from him Shaykh Abu'l-Hasan al-Ash'ari, shaykh of the Sunna, took kalam. 1

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  1. Wafayat al-A'yan wa-Anba' Abna' al-Zaman — Ibn Khallikan
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