and Zurārah ibn Awfá was the judge of Basra. likewise, among the elders of the Sufis, there were those who experienced such annihilation and intoxication that their discernment weakened, leading them to say things in that state which, upon regaining clarity, they recognized as erroneous. it is narrated about the likes of Abū Yazīd, Abū al-Ḥusayn al-Nūrī, Abū Bakr al-Shiblī, and their peers. in contrast to Abū Sulaymān al-Dārānī, Maʿrūf al-Karkhī, and al-Fuḍayl ibn