Qadi Iyad

[7][8] In addition, he specialized in theology, legal theory, scriptural exegesis, Arabic language, history, genealogy, and poetry.

[5] As a scion of a notable scholarly family, ʿIyad was able to learn from the best teachers Ceuta had to offer.

Growing up, ʿIyad benefited from the traffic of scholars from al-Andalus, the Maghrib, and the eastern Islamic world.

[11] In his quest for knowledge, Iyad spent part of 1113 and 1114 visiting Cordoba, Murcia, Almeria, and Granada.

Iyad's overall fame as a jurist and as a writer of fiqh (positive law) was based on the work he did in this city.

Some sources, including one written by his son, Muhammad, describe how he ingratiated himself with the Almohads in Marakech and eventually died of sickness during a military campaign.

Therefore, the people of Sunnah from the East and the West use his (al-Ash'ari) methodology and his arguments, and he has been praised by many as well as his school.In doctrine Iyad to known have influenced later scholars like Ibn Taymiyyah and Taqī ad-Dīn as-Subkī (d.1355) in expanding the definition of heresy in apostasy, being the first to call for the death penalty for those Muslims guilty of “disseminating improprieties about Muḥammad or questioning his authority in all questions of faith and profane life” (according to Tilman Nagel).