المعنى الاصطلاحي :

The followers of Dirār ibn ‘Amr al-Koofi. He denied the attributes of Allah, the Almighty, as well the existence of Paradise and Hell. He held that it is possible to accuse the entire nation of disbelief esoterically.

الشرح المختصر :

"Ad-Dirāriyyah" are the followers of Dirār ibn ‘Amr al-Ghatfāni (d. 190 AH). He was initially the student of Wāsil ibn ‘Atā but then disagreed with him regarding the creation of the deeds and the denial of the punishment in the grave. He claimed that the meaning of Allah being the All-Knowing and the Omnipotent is that He is neither ignorant nor incapable. That was the way he adopted regarding all the attributes of Allah; interpreting Allah's affirmed attributes only by negating the opposite of such attributes. His deviant beliefs include: claiming that Allah can be seen using a sixth sense, a sense other than the five senses. He also claimed that bodies are merely an accumulation of accidental conditions, that fire is not hot, that ice is not cold, and that honey is not really sweet, etc. Rather, such characteristics are created when a person touches or tastes them. He also claimed that those who did not belong to the Quraysh were more entitled to leadership than those who belonged to it. He had doubts regarding the faith of Muslims in general, stating that their inner thoughts and feelings are probably full of polytheism and disbelief. "Ad-Dirāriyyah" resemble the "Najjāriyyah" in many of their claims. Ash-Shihristāni considered them to be from the "Jabriyyah", while Ibn Hazm considered them to be from the Mu‘taziltes. Al-Ash‘ari and Al-Baghdādi considered them an independent sect.