Ibn Kathir said in al-Bidaayah wan-Nihaayah: "And al-Ash'ari was a Mu'tazili but he repented from that [whilst] on top of the minbar (pulpit) in Basrah and then he publicized the scandals of the Mu'tazilah" Sufis claim to follow Al-Ash'ari, but the man they claim to follow repented from his mistakes and adopted the correct aqidah by the hands of Ahmad Ibn Hanbal (rah). In order to understand the Sufis of today, we need to be fair and make a distinction between the Ash'aris, The Ash'aris differ in some aspects, the later Ash'aris have more and greater errors then the early ones. The sufis of today are are not Ash'aris, they a...