regarding the Prophetic biography, many of which none before him had noticed; he also wrote a book entitled “al-Iʿlām fīmā ubhima fīl-Qurʾān mina al-asmāʾ wa-al-aʿlām” (Clarifications of the Obscure Names and Persons in the Qur’an), another called “Natāʾij al-Fikr” (The Fruits of Reflection), and a splendid “Masʾala fīl-Farāʾiḍ” (Treatise on the Laws of Inheritance). He likewise composed “al-Masʾala fīl-Sirr (1) fī Kawn al-Dajjāl Aʿwar” (The Question Concerning the Secret of Why the Antichrist Is One-Eyed), together with many other (2) unique, ingenious, and beneficial works. He produced fine poetry, lived chastely, and remained poor—until late in life when the ruler of Marrakesh sent him a large sum of money.

[His death occurred in this] (3) year, on Thursday the twenty-sixth of Shaʿbān of that year (4). He had a poem by which he would beseech Allah, hoping for an answer through its blessing (5); it runs (6):

[from the kāmil metre]
O You who see what hearts conceal and hear it—
You are prepared for every hope we anticipate.
O You to whom we turn in every hardship,
to whom complaints and those who seek refuge migrate.
O You whose stores of provision lie in the word “Be!”,
bestow Your favour, for all good with You is innate.
I have no means to You but my poverty,
and by my very need of You (7) my need I expiate.
I have no stratagem save pounding upon Your door,
and should I (8) be turned away, what door shall I agitate?
Whom (9) else shall I call upon and cry his name
if Your grace from Your destitute servant You abrogate?
Far be it from Your majesty to drive a sinner to despair (10);
Your bounty is more abundant, Your gifts more great (11).