; a response concerning his statement, peace and blessings be upon him: “Whoever says, ‘I am better than Jonah son of Mattā,’ has lied” (1); a response discussing which is superior—occupying oneself with the Speech of Allah, with His Names, or with His remembrance (2); a response on lowering the gaze and safeguarding chastity (3); a response on the doctrine of maʿiyya (Divine accompaniment) and its legal implications. He also composed, under (4) Questions on the Soul ⦗23⦘—whether the soul is punished in the grave together with the body, whether it departs from the body at death, and whether after death it can assume a form and possess cognition (5), and related issues—a work of roughly a single volume (6). In addition, he produced an answer to the question of whether the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, was already a prophet before the formal commission, and whether anyone who accompanied him during that period is to be regarded as a Companion (7).