a sweltering place, where he was subjected to every kind of torture, until he died in Jumada I.

It is said that he was seen in a dream and was asked, “What has Allah done with you?” He replied, “He forgave me because of what I endured; He would never combine for me the punishment of this world and the Hereafter.”

Abu ʿAlī al-Tannūkhī narrated, on the authority of his father, from a group of courtiers who told him that al-Muʿtaḍid ordered Ibn Bulbul to be brought in. A large earthenware vat (1) was prepared, filled with isfidāj (white-lead paste) and its liquid; his head was forced into it up to his neck, and they held him there until his life was extinguished. His soul kept escaping in bursts of flatulence from his lower body until he died.

116 – Asbagh ibn Khalīl, Abū al-Qāsim al-Andalusī, the Mālikī *

He was the jurist and mufti of Cordoba, Abū al-Qāsim al-Andalusī, the Mālikī. He studied a little with al-Ghāzī ibn Qays, and also took knowledge from Yaḥyā ibn Yaḥyā, Asbagh ibn al-Faraj, Sahnūn, and others. He excelled in the drafting of legal contracts, yet he was unacquainted with hadith, was suspected in his transmissions, and, it is said, composed a work denying the raising of the hands in prayer. Qāsim ibn Asbagh said, “He prevented me from attending the lessons of Baqī (2).” I heard him say, “I would rather there be a pig in my coffin than a single volume of Ibn Abī Shaybah’s compilation.” Qāsim then invoked a curse upon him.