His kunyah (teknonym) is Abū Naṣr. He is a Turkish philosopher. His knowledge of musīqī (music) was greater than anyone else's. So much so that, through the art of musīqī, he could reach listeners and influence them. If he wished, he could move a person who was crying, laughing, or sleeping. He was a master in philosophy. The work titled Ta-fakkuhu Ibn Sīnā is among his books.
Farabī believed that people would be resurrected not bodily but spiritually, and that only the ʿālim (learned) souls would be resurrected, while the ignorant souls would not be resurrected. In this matter, he held a belief and method contrary to the Muslims and the philosophers before him. If he died with this belief, may the Lord of the Worlds curse him.
According to what Ibn al-ʿAṣīr states in his work al-Kāmil, Farabī died in Dimashq (Damascus). Because he was a corrupt and spiritually ugly person, Ibn ʿAsākir did not mention him in his Tārīkh. Allah knows best.