during the illness from which he died in Nishapur. He was helped to sit up and said to us:

“Bear witness that I have retracted every statement I made that contradicts what the righteous predecessors said, and that I am dying holding the same faith as the elderly women of Nishapur.”

This account was transmitted from him by al-Hasan ibn al-Abbās al-Rustamī al-Asbahānī, the mufti and hadith scholar of Isfahan, who said, “Abū al-Fath narrated to us,” and related it just as Ibn al-Walīd had related it.

Then, when Abū al-Maālī spoke from his pulpit, denying that Allah is above