whatever sect he may belong. The consideration for us is their beliefs and statements, not their names."
Among those who explicitly declared the disbelief of the Ash'arites and cursed them are:
1 - Abū Ismāʿīl al-Harawī in Dhamm al-Kalām (4/391-432), who said: "The eighth generation: and among them the Ash'arites emerged." He mentioned in this generation those among the scholars who excommunicated them.
2 - Aḥmad b. Ḥamza and Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥaddād said: "We found Abū al-ʿAbbās Aḥmad b. Muḥammad al-Nahāwandī condemning the people of scholastic theology and excommunicating the Ash'arites." [Dhamm al-Kalām (1295)].
3 - Abū Ismāʿīl al-Harawī, may Allah have mercy on him, said in Dhamm al-Kalām (1315): "I saw Yaḥyā b. ʿAmmār (d. 422 AH) countless times on his pulpit excommunicating them and cursing them, and testifying to al-Ashʿarī's heresy. I also saw ʿUmar b. Ibrāhīm and our sheikhs doing the same."
4 - ʿUmar b. Ibrāhīm, may Allah have mercy on him, said: "The slaughtered animals of the Ash'arites are not permissible, because they are neither Muslims nor People of the Book, and they do not affirm the Book of God on earth." [Dhamm al-Kalām (1318)].
5 - Yūsuf b. ʿAbd al-Hādī, may Allah have mercy on him, said in Jamʿ al-Juyūsh wa-al-Dasākir (p. 201): "And among them: Abū al-Muẓaffar al-Tirmidhī, Ḥabbāl b. Aḥmad, the imam of the people of Tirmidh, who avoided them [meaning: the Ash'arites] and testified to their heresy."
6 - Al-Ahwāzī, may Allah have mercy on him, in his book Mathālib Ibn Abī Bishr—meaning: al-Ashʿarī. Ibn ʿAbd al-Hādī quoted from it extensively in his book Jamʿ al-Juyūsh wa-al-Dasākir, and his other book Kashf al-Ghiṭā ʿan Maḥw al-Khaṭaʾ.
7 - Ibn Qudāma al-Maqdisī (d. 620 AH), may Allah have mercy on him, said in Ḥikāyat al-Munāẓara fī al-Qurʾān (p. 50)—while speaking about the Ash'arites: "And this is inevitably the condition of these people, for they are heretics without a doubt. There is no doubt that they outwardly show reverence for the mushafs to give the illusion that the Qur'an is within them, while inwardly believing that there is nothing in them except paper and ink..." until he said: "And the reality of their doctrine is: there is no god in the heaven, no Qur'an on earth, and Muḥammad is not the Messenger of God..."
8 - Ibn al-Ḥanbalī said in al-Risāla al-Wāḍiḥa fī al-Radd ʿalā al-Ashāʿira (2/451):
