Q: Can you please explain who the Ash’arees are? I am very confused about them because ulema-e-Deoband usually list themselves as Ash’aree or Matreedi, but Arabian scholars like Shaykh Muhammad Ibn Saalih al Uthaymeen and bin Baz clearly consider Ash'aree and Matreedi out of Ahle-Sunnah wal Jamaah. Why do the Arabian scholars consider Ash'aree and Matreedi to be outside of Ahle-sunnah wal Jamaah. What is even more confusing is that our ulema respect the aforementioned scholar, but if you read fatwa work of these scholars, you will clearly see that they consider Ash'aree and Matreedi to be a batil sect.
