grave sin". Al-Ṣafadī, who died in 1363, refers to his "unsurpassed lies". In the fiteenth century, al-ʿAsqalānī wrote that "there is not even one accurate description of a single one of Muḥammad's expeditions" in Bakrī's works. They are also condemned by and al-Qalqashandī, who considered him an archetypal liar. In the sixteenth century, Ibn Ḥajar al-Haytamī issued a fatwā forbidding their reading. Notes References Bibliography Preprint online. Religious biographers Medieval Arabic-language writers