Advice of Scholars - TWO IMÂMS IN I’TIQÂD

Among the disciples of these four imâms, two scholars reached very high grades in spreading the teachings of îmân. Thus, there became two madhhabs in i’tiqâd or îmân. The right faith in accordance with the Qur’ân-al-kerîm and the Hadîth ash-sherîfs, is only the faith shown by these two imâms, who spread on the earth the faith of Ahl as-Sunna, which is the Group of Salvation. One of them was Abu ’l-Hasan ’Alî al-Ash’arî (rahimah-Allâhu ta’âlâ), who was born in Basra in 226 A. H. [879] and died in Baghdad in 330 [941]. The other was Abu Mansûr al-Mâturîdî (rahimah-Allâhu ta’âlâ), who died in Samarqand in 333 [944]. In îmân, every Muslim has to follow one of these two great imâms.