Bih Āfarīd (Bihāfarīdh) (d. ca. 131/749), the founder of the Bih Āfarīdiyya group, who laid claim to being a prophet. There seems to have been two sources accessible to early authors about the life of Bih Āfarīd, his beliefs and activities: one is by Ibrāhīm b. ʿAbbās al-Ṣūlī (d. 243/857), who wrote a work about the ʿAbbāsids (see Sezgin, GAS, 2/578–580) which was available to Ibn al-Nadīm (pp. 407–408) and Muḥammad al-ʿAwfī (3(1)/226–228, 4(1)/178), from whom al-Bīrūnī, Abū Ḥātim al-Rāzī and others appear to have quo…