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Al Baghdadi; Al-Fark Bain al-Firak (Moslem Schisms and Sects) (d1037) (northeast Persia)
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Taken from: Die Richtungen der islamischen Koranauslegung By Ign c Goldziher
Most Mu' taziliten state that the Zindsch, Turken and Chazaren are able to learn the (rhetorical) art of the Koran and to bring something similar and even still more splendid; only the ability lacks them to bring the things into the correct order.
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Usul al-Din (Basics of Religion)
Taken from: Shaykh Ahmad ibn Muhammad, A History of the People of Hadeeth
Full name: Abd al-Kahir b. Tahir, Abu Mansur al-Shafi`I al-Baghdadi
(All the people the companions of the Prophet conquered were called: Ahl ul-Hadeeth, )
It is clear that the people of the lands of ar-Room, al-Jazeerah, ash-Shaam, Adharbayjaan (Azerbaijan), Baabul-Abwaab and others which were conquered were all upon the madhhab of the Ahl ul-Hadeeth. Also the inhabitants of the lands of Ifreeqiyyah, Andalus and all the countries behind the Western Sea, were from the Ahl ul-Hadeeth. Also the people of the lands of al-Yaman upon the Zanj coastline (Zanzibar) were all from the Ahl ul-Hadeeth.