 The references in the corpus of hadith literature to "bona fide" miracle-working saints like the pre-Islamic Jurayj̲ (seemingly an Arabic form of the Greek "Grēgorios"), only lent further credence to this early understanding of the miracles of the saints.The fourteenth-century Hanbali scholar Ibn Taymiyyah (d. 1328), in spite of his well-known objections to the visiting of saints' graves, nevertheless stated