http://www.masud.co.uk/ISLAM/nuh/masudq4.htm
Per the above link, Ibn Hazm was a Dhahiri (they were very rarely Ash'ari) and "Ibn Hazm criticized Ash‘arism on the basis of what had reached him about it, though to read his main work on tenets of faith, the five-volume al-Fisal bayn al-milal wa nihal [Distinction between religions and sects] (Beirut: Dar al-Jil, n.d.) one finds that he was an Ash‘ari on tenets of faith (‘aqida) in everything but name, with the exception of one question, which was that he believed that Allah’s omnipotence related not only to creating the possible (al-mumkin) but to the impossible as well. He is reported to have said, "If Allah had wanted, He could have begotten a son," which conflicts with the Ash‘ari position that the inherently impossible, such as this, or such as "creating a square circle" are mere verbal absurdities, and not relevant to the divine attribute of omnipotence, such that it could be asked whether or not Allah could create them."
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