وتبعهم ابن العربيّ وابن سبعين وتلميذهما ابن العفيف وابن الفارض والنّجم الإسرائيليّ في قصائدهم. وكان سلفهم مخالطين للإسماعيليّة المتأخّرين من الرّافضة الدّائنين أيضا بالحلول وإلهيّة الأئمّة مذهبا لم يعرف لأوّلهم فأشرب كلّ واحد من الفريقين مذهب الآخر
They were followed by Ibn al-'Arabi and Ibn Sab'in and their pupils, and then by Ibn al-'Afif ('Afif-ad-din), Ibn al-Farid, and Najm-ad-din al-Isra'ili, in the poems they composed. The early (Sufis) had had contact with the Neo-Ismailiyah Shi'ah extremists who also believed in incarnation and the divinity of the imams, a theory not known to the early (Isma'iliyah). Each group came to be imbued with the dogmas of the other