The eminent scholar, Mubārak Ibn Muḥammad al-Mīlī al-Jazāʾirī mentions in his Tārīkh al-Jazāʾir fī al-Qadīm wa Ḥadīth, (v.2, pg.338), “The people of al-Maghrib were Salafīs until Ibn Tūmart traveled to the east and sought to incite a political, intellectual and religious rebellion in al-Maghrib. He thus adopted the Ashʿarī methodology, supported it and labeled the Murābiṭīn, who were Salafīs, as being anthropomorphists. Subsequently, the rebellion took place at the hands of ʿAbd Al-Muʾmin and as such, the Ashʿarī creed prevailed in al-Maghrib. The Salafīs diminished with the demise of the Sinhājī rule (i.e. al-Murābiṭūn) and were aided thereafter only by a marginal number of scholars throughout the successive generations. 

1. Those who describe Allāh as similar to His creation, which is without a doubt misguidance, as the apparent meaning of Allāh’s Attributes and affirmation of such does not necessitate making a similitude between Allāh and His creation, as He mentions in His Book {There is nothing like Him, and He is the All-Hearer, All Seer} [al-Shūrá:11].