al-Salām say about Ibn al-ʿArabī: “A wicked shaykh, a liar; he claims that the universe is eternal and he deems no private part unlawful.”

I say: If Muḥyī al-Dīn renounced those doctrines before his death, he has indeed triumphed—and that is easy for Allah.

He died in Rabīʿ al-Ākhir (1), in the year 638 AH.

I have supplied further material about him in al-Tārīkh al-Kabīr (2).

He composed refined poetry, possessed vast learning and a brilliant mind, and there is no doubt that many of his expressions admit an interpretation—except for the book al-Fuṣūṣ!

I read in the hand of Ibn Rāfiʿ that he had seen, in the handwriting of Fath al-Dīn al-Yaʿmurī, the following: he heard Ibn Daqīq al-ʿĪd say, “I heard Shaykh ʿIzz al-Dīn, and when Ibn al-ʿArabī al-Ṭāʾī was mentioned he said, ‘He is an evil, repulsive shaykh—a liar’” (3).

35 – Ibn al-Mustawfī, al-Mubārak ibn Aḥmad ibn al-Mubārak al-Lakhmī*
The client, the court dignitary, the erudite scholar, the ḥadith master, Sharaf al-Dīn, Abū al-Barakāt al-Mubārak