 Although the chronicler Ibn Abi Usaybi’a, as well as titles of some of Israeli’s work in manuscripts, assign Israeli the patronymic term Abu Yacqub (“father of Jacob”), the biographers state that he never married or fathered children, and attribute to him the statement that his books will cause his name to be remembered far better than children would. The assignment of patronymics to persons who did not marry and beget offspring is not altogether rare—thus we also see the patronymic “Abu Ayub” applied to the childless poet and philosopher Solomon Ibn Gabirol. As some of Israeli’s treatises have survived over a millennium and remain the occasional subject of scholarly research, his prediction is correct.