[Footnote 169: Particularly by his friend and cousin
Abdallah, the son of Abbas, who died A.D. 687, with the
title of grand doctor of the Moslems. In Abulfeda he
recapitulates the important occasions in which Ali had
neglected his salutary advice, (p. 76, vers. Reiske;) and
concludes, (p. 85,) O princeps fidelium, absque controversia
tu quidem vere fortis es, at inops boni consilii, et rerum
gerendarum parum callens.]