Born in 699 in the
Arabian Peninsula, he initially studied under
Abd-Allah ibn Muhammad ibn al-Hanafiyyah, the grandson of
Ali. Later, Wasil would travel to
Basra in
Iraq to study under
Hasan of Basra (one of the
tabi'in). In
Basra, he began to develop the ideologies that would lead to the Muʿtazilite school. He married
Amr ibn Ubayd's sister. Wasil's thoughts and solutions stem from the conflicts experienced by many scholars in resolving theological and political problems. His main contribution to the Muʿtazilite school was planting the seeds for the formation of its doctrine. He died in 748 in the Arabian Peninsula. == See also ==