—many of them; yet his discussion of doctrinal issues followed the method widely accepted among the adherents of his own school. Glory be to the One who did not grant him full clarity on that subject, despite the magnitude of his learning and his grasp of the purport of the transmitted reports.

I say: He—and those like him—are in turn astonished at you, with all your knowledge and intelligence: how could you say what you have said! Every group is amazed at the other, and there is nothing surprising about that. We hope that everyone in this blessed community who has exerted himself in the quest for truth will be forgiven.

Al-Ḍiyāʾ said: He had by his cousin Maryam (1) the following children: al-Majd ʿĪsā, Muḥammad, Yaḥyā, Ṣafiyyah, and Fāṭimah, and he had descendants through al-Majd. After that he took a slave-girl as a concubine, then another, and later married ʿIzziyyah, who died before him. He passed to the mercy of Allah on Saturday, the Day of Fiṭr, and was buried the next day, in the year 620 AH. The people who attended were beyond counting. He died in his house in the town, and al-Ḍiyāʾ said, “I was among those who washed his body.”

ʿAbd al-Ḥāfiẓ ibn Badrān told us; Ibn Qudāmah informed us: I read before ʿAbd Allah ibn Aḥmad ibn al-Narsi, who said that al-Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad al-Takkī related to you; Abū ʿAlī ibn Shādhān told us; Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Jaʿfar al-Adami told us; Aḥmad ibn Mūsā al-Shatwi (2) narrated to us; Muḥammad ibn Kathīr al-ʿAbdi narrated to us; ʿAbd Allah ibn al-Minhāl narrated from Sulaymān ibn Qusaym (3), from Sulaymān ibn Buraydah, from his father, who said:

The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, “When Allah sent Adam down to the earth, he circumambulated the House seven times, and then he prayed behind…”