d. 1701.
Sources
Zeltner (1992), 294.
Biography
His chronicle of the Fezzan is no longer extant, but was utilised by Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad b. Khalīl Ghalbūn (d. 1763), al-Tidhkār fī man malaka Ṭarābulus wa-mā kāna bihā min al-akhbār, MS: Paris (BN) ms. arabe 1889: trans. E. Rossi, La Cronaca araba Tripolina di Ibn Galbun (sec. XVIII), Bologna 1936. Al-Bahlūl’s chronicle was also used by Muṣṭafā al-Miṣrī (q.v.).