Editing Saadia Gaon (section)

===Later years===
He wrote both in Hebrew and in Arabic a work, now known only from a few fragments, entitled "Sefer ha-Galui" (Arabic title, "Kitab al-Ṭarid"), in which he emphasized with great but justifiable pride the services which he had rendered, especially in his opposition to heresy.

The fourteen years which Saadia spent in [[Babylonia]] did not interrupt his literary activity. His principal philosophical work was completed in 933; and four years later, through Ibn Sargado's father-in-law, Bishr ben Aaron, the two enemies were reconciled. Saadia was reinstated in his office; but he held it for only five more years. David b. Zakkai died before him (c. 940), being followed a few months later by the exilarch's son Judah, while David's young grandson was nobly protected by Saadia as by a father. According to a statement made by [[Abraham ibn Daud]] and doubtless derived from Saadia's son Dosa, Saadia himself died in [[Babylonia]] at [[Sura (city)|Sura]] in 942, at the age of sixty, of "black gall" (melancholia), repeated illnesses having undermined his health.