Abū Rashīd al-Nīsābūrī, Saʿīd b. Muḥammad (b. before 345/956, d. after 415/1024), was a Persian theologian and follower of the Muʿtazilī school of Baṣra. His grandfather's name is recorded as Saʿīd in the manuscript of al-Masāʾil (Ahlwardt, 4/448, no. 5125) and as al-Ḥasan b. Ḥātim in Lisān al-mīzān (Ibn Ḥajar, 3/292). Information on his life is scant, and much of what is available can be found in Ibn Karrāma al-Jushamī's (d. 494/1101) Sharḥ al-ʿuyūn (pp. 382–383)…