The second report is what Al-Zarkashi mentioned in his account of Ibn Tumart's passage through Mahdia. He said: "Sheikh Abu Al-Hasan Al-Batrani said: I saw our Sheikh Khalil Al-Mazduri. He said: I saw the righteous Sheikh Abu Abdullah Muhammad Al-Siqili, buried in Thaber, in the region of Marnaq, one of the villages of Tunis. He said: Imam Al-Mahdi passed by me while I was living in Zuwayla. He said to me: Imam Abu Hamid sends you greetings. Al-Batrani said: And I was informed that Al-Siqili lived for three hundred and thirteen years. The apparent meaning of this report suggests a meeting between Al-Mahdi and Al-Ghazali. However, there is a fear that the entire narration may be incorrect, a fear justified by the glaring exaggeration in estimating Al-Siqili's age, as mentioned by the narrator, Al-Batrani. As for Al-Ghazali, he only mentioned Ibn Tumart once in his works, in the book "Sirr Al-Alamin wa Kشف Ma'na Al-Darayn" (The Secret of the Two Worlds and the Revelation of the Meaning of the Two Abodes). He said: "The first person who approved of it [perhaps copied it] and read it to me in the Nizamiyyah Madrasah secretly from people, in the second period after my return from travel, was a man from the land of the Maghreb called Muhammad ibn Tumart, from the people of Salmiyah. And I perceived in him the potential for kingship." This text clearly and unequivocally proves the meeting between the two men. However, the book in which it appears, "Sirr Al-Alamin," is considered by many scholars to be forged and its attribution to Al-Ghazali is doubtful. Despite the fact that the book mentions many names of Al-Ghazali's works, attributing them to himself, which suggests it is his own work, there are phrases that cast real doubt on its attribution to him. Among these is his saying: "And Al-Ma'arri recited to me, for himself, while I was a young man in the company of..." (See: Al-Zarkashi, Tarikh Al-Dawlatayn, 46; Al-Ghazali, Sirr Al-Alamin, 47). (See: Badawi, Mu'allafat Al-Ghazali, 48). Among these doubters are: Shah Abdul Aziz Al-Dahlawi in his book "Tuhfat Al-Ithna 'Ashariyyah," Goldziher, Puech, and Macdonald. Muhammad Taqi Danish commented on this book, stating that it is attributed to Al-Ghazali and may have been authored by the Batinis. (See: Index of Manuscripts in the Library of the Faculty of Law, University of Tehran, Vol. 208, p. 303). Dr. Abdullah Anan mentioned a comment on the previous text, as quoted by Goldziher from "Sirr Al-Alamin," that the name Ibn Tumart is not present in the manuscripts of Dar Al-Kutub Al-Misriyyah. I referred to manuscript No. 1560 Tasawwuf from this library and found the name "Muhammad ibn Yusuf" in it. I compared it with the Berlin manuscript, which has "Muhammad ibn Yubusf (sic)," and it is clear that this is a misspelling of Yusuf. 75