Who was al-Ghazali?

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Abu Hamid al-Ghazali (1058–1111) was the Proof of Islam. He was among the great Shafi'i jurists, theologians and Sufis. He revived the sciences of religion and refuted the philosophers and the Batiniyya. ¹

Disputing the count of raids and sariyas

The maghazi arithmetic disputes: Ibn Ishaq's twenty-six raids versus the twenty-seven that split Wadi'l-Qura from Khaybar; nine pitched battles common to both lists with al-Waqidi adding Wadi'l-Qura and al-Ghaba for eleven; and the sariya counts ranging from thirty-five to al-Waqidi's forty-eight (in al-Tabari's chain) to sixty-six.

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Disputing the count of raids and sariyas