219 AH. Al-Ma’mūn had married him to his daughter and used to send him one million dirhams annually. Al-Mu‘tasim (1) summoned him to Baghdad, where he died (2).

As for what he has related, it is of the same kind as what preceded it. The Rāfidis possess neither sound reason nor authentic transmitted evidence. They neither establish truth nor demolish falsehood—neither through proof and clear exposition (3), nor by hand and spear (4). Nothing in what he has related (5) establishes any merit (6) of Muhammad ibn Alī, let alone his imamate. This tale that he narrated about Yahyā ibn Aktham (7) is one of the lies in which only the ignorant delight (8). Yahyā ibn Aktham was (9) too well versed in jurisprudence, [too knowledgeable] (10), and too eminent to seek to confound someone by asking him about a pilgrim in ihrām who had killed game. Even junior jurists (11) know the ruling on this matter. It is neither one of the subtleties or rarities of knowledge nor something known exclusively by those preeminent in learning.

Furthermore, what he related amounts to nothing more than a classification of the killer’s circumstances; it contains no explanation of the rulings governing those categories. [Merely classifying the categories does not entail knowledge of the rulings governing them] (12). Rather, it merely