Ibn Khallikan...

Ibn Khallikan, in his discussion of the life of al‑Ash'ari, mentions that he was born in 260 or 270/873 or 883 and died at Baghdad in 330/941 or some time after that.[^6] According to Shibli Nu'mani and Ibn `Asakir (the author of Tabyin Kidhb al‑Muftari , on the life and teachings of al‑Ash'ari), he was born in 270/873 and died in 330/941.[^7] He was buried between Karkh and Bab al‑Basrah (the gate of Basrah). He was a descendant of Abu Musa al‑Ash'ari, one, of the famous of the Prophet.

Al‑Ash'ari, in his early youth, came under the care of the great Mu'tazilite scholar of the Basrite school, Abu 'Ali Muhammad bin `Abd al‑Wahhab al‑Jubba'i, and, as a disciple of his, became an adherent of the Mu'tazilite…