ISBN 90-04-09738-4. Retrieved 4 December 2016. Albubather (A. Ibn al-Khasib*, AbuBakr): astrologer of Persian origin; ixth c. His fame rests on an extract from
for the Mahdīship of the Twelfth Imām came from Ṣūfī circles. Already AbūBakr al-Bayhaḳī (d. 458/1066) had noted that some Ṣūfī gnostics (d̲j̲amāʿa min