Ibn Abi Zayd al-Qayrawani

Ibn Abī Zayd (Arabic: ابن أبي زيد القيرواني) (922–996), fully Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd Allāh ibn Abī Zayd ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Nafzawī ibn Abī Zayd al-Qayrawanī,[7] was a Maliki scholar from Kairouan in Tunisia and was also an active proponent of Ash'ari thought.

[1][2][8] His best known work is Al-Risala or the Epistle, an instructional book devoted to the education of young children.

In addition, he served as the Imam (spiritual leader) of one of the mosques' that followed the Maliki School tradition.

Ibn Abi Zayd famously defended the Ash`ari school in his epistle entitled “Al-Radd `ala al-Qadariyya wa Munaqada Risala al-Baghdadi al-Mu`tazili,” a rejection of the assaults of the Mu`tazili `Ali ibn Isma`il al-Baghdadi.

Al-Mayurqi further related that Ibn Abi Zayd said: “Al-Ash`ari is a man famous for refuting the people of Innovation, the Qadariyya and the Jahmiyya, and he held fast to the Sunan.”[2]