Ibn Ḥazm said, “All of the Imāmīs maintain that the Qur’an has been altered, with both additions and omissions—save for al-Murtaḍā, who declared anyone holding that view to be an unbeliever; his two associates, Abū Yaʿlā al-Ṭūsī and Abū al-Qāsim al-Rāzī, took the same position.

I say: his writings contain abuse of the Companions of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, and we seek refuge in Allah from knowledge that brings no benefit.

Al-Murtaḍā died in 436 AH.

In that same year there also passed away: the leading linguist Tammām ibn Ghālib al-Tayyānī (1) al-Mursī; the traditionist-jurist Abū ʿAbd Allah al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAlī al-Ṣaymarī (2); Abū Saʿd ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Aḥmad al-Ṣaffār (3), a disciple of al-Ṭabarānī; Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allah ibn Ḥusayn al-Waḍḍāḥī, the exemplar of Damascus; the head of the Mālikīs, Abū al-Walīd Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allah ibn Mīqal (4) al-Mursī; the shaykh of the Shāfiʿīs, Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz al-Nīlī al-Naysābūrī; and the leader of the Muʿtazilites, Abū al-Ḥusayn Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī al-Baṣrī (5).