Abstract
The Mu'tazila sect is one of the Islamic sects that occupied a large area of Islamic history and caused an intellectual uproar during its emergence and prosperity during the Abbasid era. It made theology a basic material in presenting its ideas and beliefs and took doctrinal issues as a starting point for its followers, such as the issue of the perpetrator of a major sin, the creation of the Qur’an, the acts of generation, fate, and other issues that scholars of other sects did not delve into. Many scholars and thinkers emerged from it and became important symbols of history, thought, and doctrine, such as Wasil ibn Ata’, al-Ja’d ibn Dirham, Bishr ibn al-Mu’tamir, Thamama ibn Ashras, Ibrahim al-Nizam, al-Jahiz, al-Jubba’i, and others who stirred up the thoughts in the minds of scholars. Reactions to their ideas varied between those who disbelieved, those who were satisfied, and those who pondered them and did not know what to say. The subject of our research is about the person of Thamama ibn Ashras al-Numayri, who became the leader of the Thamama sect, who came up with ideas that differed even from the Mu'tazilite sects that preceded him. He was more daring and rebelled against the heritage, and it became his He had a great position among the Abbasid Caliphs, to the point that al-Ma'mun would consult him on every big and small matter, and he could hardly decide a matter without the presence of Thamamah, because he was inclined towards the Mu'tazilite thought, and his court became filled with the ideas of Thamamah and other Mu'tazilites. Thamamah raised issues that became, after him, a subject of discussion and disagreement among theologians, such as the issue of the peoples who did not know God and the followers of other religions such as the Jews, Christians, Sabians, and Magians. He also raised the issue of his prohibition of captivity, and he considered that whoever had intercourse with a female captive was as if he had committed adultery with her, and that the child born from her would be the child of adultery. He also raised the issue of generated actions, and gave an opinion about it that made whoever discussed it consider him an infidel. He delved into the issue of the creation of the Qur’an, and it was said that he was the one who pushed al-Ma'mun to say it, and a number of sayings that made him be considered an infidel by the scholars of the nation. In our research, we will come to the study of Thamamah bin Ashras and his doctrinal views, about which many questions and denials were raised.