and the punishment was not lifted from him. So they carried out that against him and placed his head on the bridge of Baghdad. His companions began to count themselves as returning after forty days. People differed about him; some exaggerated his veneration, and some declared him an infidel. Imam Al-Ghazali defended him in his book "Al-Anwar," saying that he said what he said out of excessive love and intense passion. Some mentioned that he, Al-Jannabi, and Ibn Al-Muqanna' conspired to overthrow the state, corrupt the kingdom, and win hearts and attract them to themselves. Each of them took a region. As for Al-Jannabi, who was a prominent preacher of the Qarmatians, he went to Al-Ahsa. As for Ibn Al-Muqanna', he went to the borders of the Turks. As for Al-Hallaj, he went to Baghdad. Ibn Khallikan criticized this report because Ibn Al-Muqanna''s history does not align with their history. He suggested that the third man was Abu Ja'far Muhammad ibn Ali Al-Shalghama'i, despite the difference in writing between the two names. He introduced an extreme doctrine in Shi'ism, transmigration, and the incarnation of God in the body, similar to what Al-Hallaj did. He went to Baghdad and claimed divinity there. The vizier Ibn Muqla arrested him and accused him of saying that he was "the gate to the awaited Imam." His case was presented to the jurists, who issued a fatwa permitting his blood, and he was burned.