Abū Bakr died in Muḥarram of the year 352 AH. Others said: in 351.

Al-Ḥākim said, “He was a Rāfiḍī and not reliable.” (1)

Muḥammad ibn Ḥammād, the ḥāfiẓ, said, “He remained upright for most of his life, but in his last days the bulk of what was recited to him consisted of invectives. I attended one session where a man read before him that ʿUmar kicked Fāṭimah until she miscarried Muḥsin.

“In another report he interpreted the Almighty’s words, ‘And Pharaoh came’ (2) as meaning ʿUmar, ‘and those before him’ as Abū Bakr, and ‘the overturned cities’ as ʿĀʾishah and Ḥafṣah.

“So I concurred with that verdict and abandoned his narrations.” (3)

I say: a misled shaykh who stumbled badly.

350 – Ibn Yūnus, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Aḥmad al-Miṣrī *

The imām, the meticulous ḥāfiẓ, Abū Saʿīd ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Aḥmad, son of the imām Yūnus ibn ʿAbd al-Aʿlā al-Ṣadafī, the Egyptian, author of “History of the Scholars of Egypt.” (4)