خلاصه ماشینی:
2 "Abu-Rayyan took his revenge by narrating in a book entitled, Mathalibul-Wazirayn, the humiliations he had suffered at the hands of the Sahib and his counter-part, Ibnu l-'Amid, the minister at Isbahan.
The Hafiz edh• Dhahabi says: "Abu-Rayyan, the enemy of God was a mischievous person, corrupt in his beliefs.
says in repudiation of the charge levelled by adh-Dhahabi: "The two comments of Ibnu-Faris and lbnu-Jauzi (recorded above) have prompted adh-Dhahabi by adding to his dislike for the Sufis, to malign Abu-Hayyan, but nothing in justification ofthe charges has been found by me on investigating his history, nor have I discovered anything to substantiate them in the many books of his which I have studied, except that he was a man of virile mind, and contemp• tuous of his contemporaries.
s " Before taking up the Kitabu l-Muqabasat let me cite one other instance from one of Abu-Hayyan's books, which besides portraying the general picture of his misery, clearly shows him to be a victim of social ostracism in punishment for the offence he had given to the Sahib, a man of very wide authority and far reaching patronage.
However, to be true to my inten• tion to substantiate the claim of his religiousness from the Muqabasat, I shall content myself with the concluding paragraph of a discourse about Sukun and Barakat by the hero of the book, Abu-Sulayman al-Mantiqi: "May God preserve you, were we to benefit from some of those pearls of wisdom, (i.