According to some writers...

According to some writers, he came of the renowned family of Abu Ayyub al‑Ansari of Madinah.[^2] This statement is also corroborated by the fact that some other Arab families of Madinah also settled in Samarqand[^3] and that al‑Maturidi's daughter was married to al‑Hasan al‑Ash'ari, the father of Imam Abu al‑Hasan `Ali al­ Ash'ari and a descendant of Abu Ayyub al Ansari of Madinah.[^4] Almost all the biographers who give only short sketches of al‑Maturidi's life in their works agree that he died in the year 333/944, but none of them mentions the date of his birth.

One of the teachers of al‑Maturidi, namely, Muhammad b. Muqatil al‑Razi is stated to have died in 248/862, which proves that al‑Maturidi was born before that year and possibly about the year 238/853. According to this assumption, al‑Maturidi was born during the reign of the 'Abbasid Caliph al‑Mutawakkil (r. 232‑247/847‑861) who combated the Mu'tazilite doctrines and supported the traditional faith[^5].

Al‑Maturidi flourished under the powerful rule of the Samanids, who ruled practically the whole of Persia from 261/874 to 389/999 actively patronized science and literature, and gathered around their Court as number of renowned scholars.[^6] He was brought up in the peaceful academic atmosphere and cultural environment of his native land and received good education in different Islamic sciences under four eminent scholars of his time: Shaikh Abu Bakr Ahmad b. Ishaq, Abu Nasr Ahmad b.

al‑`Abbas known as al‑Faqih al‑Samar­qandi, Nusair b. Yahya al‑Balkhi (d. 268/881), and Muhammad b. Muqatil al‑Razi (d. 248,/862), Qadi of Rayy. All of them were students of Imam Abu Hanifah (d. 150/767)[^7] In recognition of his scholarship and profound knowledge in theology (and his invaluable services to the cause of Ahl al‑sunnah w‑al‑jama'ah ) people conferred on him the title of Imam al‑Huda and Imam al‑Mutakallimin .

Mahmud al‑Kufawi mentioned him as “leader of guidance, the model of the Sunnite and the guided, the bearer of the standard of Ahl al‑sunnah w‑al ­jama'ah , the uprooter of misguidance arising from disorder and heresies, leader of the scholastics, and rectifier of the faith of the Muslims.[^8] Works ‑ Al‑Maturidi wrote a number of important books on Tafsir , Kalam , and Usul , a list of which is given below: Kitab Tawilat al‑Qur'an or Tawilat Ahl al‑Sunnah. Kitab Ma'khadh al‑Shari'ah .

Kitab al‑Jadal . Kitab al‑Usul ( Usul al‑Din ). Kitab al‑Maqalat . Kitab al‑ Tauhid .