Most scholars of kalām used the story of Ibrahim and how he argued with his people about God as the solitary Qurʾānic evidence for the proof of the existence of God through the proof of the createdness of accidents. The Ahl al-Ḥadīth, on the other hand, never accepted this proof in the first place, much less ascribe it to the great patriarch Ibrahīm, the ‘Friend of God’, led by Shaykh al-Islām Ibn Taymiyyah. In this article, the different theological implications of this story as understood by these two groups will be discussed.