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' Ali had one son Abul I:Iusain Muhammad whose date of birth is not known, but whose death occurred in 494 and with him, according to Ibn al-jauzi, this family died out.
While I was going through the Mu. stajad with Pauli I had my doubts whether al-Muhassin was the author or his son 'Ali because in quite a number of cases tales are introduced as being related by.
On several occasions 'Ali, the son of al-Muhassin, is given as the reporter of tales, but strangely at times as the author of the Faraj ba'd a.
It would appear that this collection of tales, which differ in number, in the various manuscripts, was current at first as an anonymous book, and later, because the Kitab al-Faraj ba'd ash-Shidda is mentioned several times, as the source, a title was added.
As I have pointed out some manuscripts ascribe the work to ath-Tha'alibi who might have been the author but for its contents and the simple language which is not at alJ the style of the man who contributed largely to the deterioration of the simplicity of earlier • As regards this Nisha Sam'ani in describing~ the spelling gives the last letter as 1:fd ', while Yaqut in the Mu'jam spells it with Jim and cites some verses in which _the rhyme containing the name of the place certainly is on Jim. In the Wafl the name is also spelt with J:{a' as here in the Mustajad, but The evidence of Yaqut is too good to be rejected.