Sālimiyya ( ar, السالمية) was a
Sufi movement in
Basra
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, named after
Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn Salim (d. 297/909) and his son Ahmad (d. 356/967). They believed that the individual letters and sounds of the
Qur'an
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are eternal.
Followers of the movement are known as Salimis.
References
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Sufism