and anything in which accidents can inhere is a body.’ They maintained that an indivisible particle is a body capable of bearing accidents, and that ‘substance’ likewise means something capable of bearing accidents. This is the view of Abū al-Hasan al-Sālihī.

He further related that the proponent of this view maintained that a body can bear all kinds of accidents. However, composition is not called such unless another instance of composition exists. One of the two may nevertheless occur in a particle, but we do not call it composition, in keeping with linguistic usage. They said that this is because speakers of the language did not allow one to speak of contact with