He also said—may Allah Most High have mercy on him:

The book Tanaqqulāt al-Anwār (The Passage of the Lights), attributed to Ahmad ibn ‘Abd Allāh al-Bakrī, is among the books most filled with lies and fabrications against Allah, His Messenger, and the Companions of Allah’s Messenger, may Allah bless him and grant him peace. Its author has invented accounts like those fabricated in the tales of Dalhama and al-Battāl, the tales of ‘Antara, the stories of al-Rashīd and his vizier Ja‘far al-Barmakī, and the stories of adventurers such as al-Zi’baq the Egyptian and Ahmad al-Danq, and other such works.

But those writers fabricate lies about people who are not prophets, whereas the author of the book he called Tanaqqulāt al-Anwār fabricates lies about Allah’s Messenger, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, and his Companions. He attributes to him lies the like of which no one is known to have written in any book. Even if some of what he relates contains a very little truth, it is of the same kind as that found in the tales of ‘Antara and al-Battāl. ‘Antara was indeed a poet and one of the horsemen of the pre-Islamic era. His poetry is well known, and one of his odes is among the seven Mu‘allaqāt (Suspended Odes). Yet they fabricated more lies about him than anyone but Allah can count, and each successive storyteller added further falsehoods to those tales.