Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Baṣrī, Abū ʿAbd Allāh Ḥusayn b. ʿAlī al-Kāghadhī, was a mutakallim (theologian) of the Muʿtazilī school and a faqīh (jurist) of the Ḥanafī school, known outside these circles as al-Juʿal (‘the dung-beetle’), (d. 2 Dhū al-Ḥijja 369/19 June 980). He is considered one of the 10th ṭabaqa (generation) of the Muʿtazila (al-Qāḍī ʿAbd al-Jabbār, ‘Ṭabaqāt’, 325), and Abū Isḥāq al-Shīrāzī (p. 143) refers to him as the raʾs al-muʿtazila (chief of the Muʿtazila).

Abū ʿAbd Allāh was born in Baṣra, and the year of his birth is …