and the Kitāb Man Taḥarraka ʿinda al-Qirāʾa (One Who Moves While Reciting) (1).

It is also said that he composed his celebrated Risāla when he was only seventeen years old.

Despite his eminence in both knowledge and practice, he was distinguished for his piety, altruism, generosity toward students, and overall benevolence.

It is reported that he sent the judge ʿAbd al-Wahhāb ibn Naṣr al-Mālikī (2) one thousand dinars, though this is doubtful, for ʿAbd al-Wahhāb became well known only after the time of Abū Muḥammad.

What is reliably established, however, is that when the jurist Yaḥyā ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz al-ʿUmari arrived in Kairouan, he presented him with one hundred and fifty dinars, and that the daughter of Shaykh Abū’l-Ḥasan al-Qābisi (3) was provided with a trousseau worth four hundred dinars from Ibn Abī Zayd’s own funds (4).

It is further related that Muḥriz al-Tūnisi (5) was brought Ibn Abī Zayd’s daughter, who was paralyzed. He prayed for her; she rose to her feet, and the people were astonished and glorified Allah. He said, “By Allah, I uttered only this: ‘By the honor her father enjoys in Your sight, remove from her what afflicts her,’ and Allah healed her (6).”

I add: May Allah have mercy on him; in matters of doctrine he kept to the path of the early generations. He knew nothing of speculative kalām and did not engage in figurative interpretation. We ask Allah for success.