Muntakhab al-tawarikh 111.4

111.4

When I was reading, under his instruction, the commentary on the Saha’if fi-’l-Kalam and the Tahqiq fi usuli-lfall; notwithstanding that a class of pupils of copious attainments and students of clear intellect were also engaged in study, and brought subtil difficulties for his elucidation, I never saw him, in the course of his teaching, to be under the necessity of referring to a book for the purpose of solving those questions and obscure subtilties, for whatever he had once seen he had on the tip of his tongue, and he had acquired the habit of great readiness, being assisted thereto by God. He is now in his ninetieth year, and will, please God, who is honoured, attain to the natural limit of man’s age.