Before Homosexuality in the Arab-Islamic World, 1500-1800 (59 page)

di
(d. 1791), judged the saying to be authentic, though within that general category there was some uncertainty as to whether its line of transmission should be classified as “good”
ḥasan
) or “weak” (
ḍaʿi
f
).
¹³⁴
Even scholars who were otherwise influenced by Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyyah and his teacher Ibn Taymiyyah, such as Muhammad al-Saffārīnī and Muhammad al-Shawka
ni
, seem to have been content to leave the issue of authenticity open, rather than expressly denying it.
¹³⁵
Authors of works on love, such as Da
wu
d al-Anṭa
ki
(d. 1599), the Ḥanbali
jurist Marʿi
ibn Yusuf al-Karmi
(d. 1624), and Muḥyi
al-Di
n al-Ṣalti