(1) His biography will appear under no. 447. (2) The manuscript reads “Abu Ahmad b. ʿAbd al-Rahman,” which is incorrect; the correct form is what we have adopted, and his biography will be given under no. 343. (3) See Tartib al-Madarik, vol. 4, pp. 492–494. (4) These are the additions to Imam Malik’s al-Mudawwana. A manuscript of Kitab al-Nawadir is preserved in the Qarawiyyin Library, Fez, under nos. 841 and 901. (5) I.e. he edited/abridged it. (6) Attributed to its compiler Muhammad b. Ahmad b. ʿAbd al-Aziz ʿUtba al-ʿUtbi al-Qurtubi (d. 254/868). The work consists of legal questions in the Maliki school and is known as al-Mustakhraja al-ʿUtbiya; see Tartib al-Madarik 3/145–146 and al-Dibaj al-Mudhahhab 2/177. Ibn Abi Zayd later organized it by chapters. (7) A treatise on the branches of Maliki law. Shajarat al-Nur states: “Shaykh Muhraz b. Khalaf al-Tunisi asked him to compose it; it was his first work, and people competed for copies until some were written in gold.” It was published in Fez (undated), Cairo 1338 AH, Paris 1914 with a French translation, and London 1906 with an English translation. An edition with the marginal commentary Taqrib al-Maʿani by Shaykh ʿAbd al-Majid al-Sharnubi appeared in Bulaq 1314 AH and was reprinted in Egypt in 1320 AH and 1331 AH. Many commentaries exist; those printed include Sharh al-Risala by Abu ʿAbd Allah Muhammad b. Qasim Jasus (4 vols., Fez 1312 AH) and Sharh al-Risala by Abu al-Hasan ʿAli b. Muhammad al-Manufi al-Shadhili (d. 939 AH) entitled Kifayat al-Talib, together with marginalia by ʿAli b. Ahmad b. Makram al-ʿAdawi al-Saʿidi al-Manafisi (d. 1189 AH). (8) This is the wording of the manuscript and of Tarikh al-Islam; Tartib al-Madarik, al-Dibaj al-Mudhahhab and Shajarat al-Nur read instead: “al-Maʿrifa wa’l-Yaqin.”