than Abū Bakr’s across the disciplines, and his powers of memorisation were far greater. In many issues he hit the mark and excelled; in others he slipped in the narrow passages, just as other leading imams do—for true impartiality is rare.

Abū al-Qāsim Ibn Bashkuwāl (1) said: “Ibn al-ʿArabī died in Fes in the month of Rabīʿ al-Ākhir, in the year 543 (2) AH.”

To that same year he also assigns al-Ḥāfiẓ Abū al-Ḥasan ibn al-Mufaḍḍal and Ibn Khallikān.

In that year there likewise died: the great musnid Abū al-Durr Yāqūt al-Rūmī al-Saffār (3), companion of Ibn Hazārmard; the centenarian Abū Tamām Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Mukhtār ibn al-Muʾayyad billāh al-Hāshimī al-Saffār (4), companion of Ibn al-Muslima in Nīshāpūr; the jurist Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad ibn Nabḥān al-Ghanawī al-Raqqī, transmitter of the sermons (5); the ḥadith scholar Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥasan ibn Masʿūd ibn al-Wazīr al-Dimashqī (6), who died in Marw while still in his middle years; the Chief Judge Abū al-Qāsim ʿAlī ibn Nūr al-Hudā al-Ḥusayn ibn Muḥammad al-Zaynabī (7); the centenarian Abū Ghālib Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī ibn al-Dāyah (8); the musnid of Damascus Abū al-Qāsim al-Khaḍr ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAbdān (9); and the scholar of Baghdad Abū Bakr al-Mubārak ibn Kāmil al-Ẓafarī.