I (the author) say: He was an Ashʿarite, a foremost authority in the discipline of kalām, having studied under Abū al-Ḥasan al-Bāhilī, a direct disciple of al-Ashʿarī.
ʿAbd al-Ghāfir relates: “Abū ʿAlī al-Daqqāq was invoking prayers for a group during his gathering. Someone said to him, ‘Will you not supplicate for Ibn Furak?’ He replied, ‘How can I pray for him when just last night I was imploring Allah—by the sanctity of his faith—to cure me?’ (1)
I add: He was carried in chains to Shīrāz on account of matters of creed (2).
Abū al-Walīd al-Bājī reports that Sultan Maḥmūd asked him about the Messenger of Allah ﷺ. He answered, ‘He was the Messenger of Allah; as for today, he is not.’ The Sultan therefore ordered that he be killed by poison (3).
Ibn Ḥazm said: ‘He used to claim that the spirit of the Messenger of Allah has ceased to exist, has vanished, and is not in Paradise.’
I (the author) say: al-Ḥākim narrated a ḥadīth from him, and he died one year before al-Ḥākim.
126 – Bādīs ibn Manṣūr ibn Yūsuf ibn Ballakīn ibn Zīrī
The ruler of the Maghrib, descended from its line of kings affiliated with the Fāṭimids, Abū Manād al-Ṣunhājī. al-Ḥākim entrusted him with the dominions of Ifrīqiya and bestowed upon him the honorific “Naṣīr al-Dawla.”