(1) In his catalogue of teachers (Mashaykhah, fol. 151) the author writes: “Muhammad b. Muhammad b. Salim b. Yusuf b. Saʿid b. al-Silm, the eminent scholar-judge, Jamal al-Din, Abu al-Makaram, son of the unrivalled judge Najm al-Din, grandson of the Chief Judge Shams al-Din Salim al-Qurashi al-Nabulusi al-Shafiʿi, qadi of Jerusalem and Nablus. He narrated to us from Abu ʿAli al-Awqi. He was born in 620 AH/1223-24 CE in Nablus and died there in Rabiʿ al-Awwal 694 AH/1294-95 CE.” (2) The nisba “Awqi” comes from the place-name “Awh” (both vowels open, ending with a h). Yaqut states in Muʿjam al-Buldan, 1/283: “Awh is a village between Zanjan and Hamadan. From it was the pious ascetic Abu ʿAli al-Hasan b. Ahmad b. Yusuf al-Awqi; I met him in Jerusalem, detached from the world, devoted to Quran recitation while facing the qibla of al-Masjid al-Aqsa. I heard a fascicle from him, wrote it down, and asked about his origin. He said, ‘I come from a town called Awh.’ The hadith scholar al-Salafi told me, ‘You should add a qaf for the nisba’; hence he was called al-Awqi.” ʿAbd al-Rahman al-Muʿallimi al-Yamani notes on this remark (al-Ansab, 1/388): “It is not an addition but the replacement of the final silent h in a foreign word with a qaf, as found in similar cases.” (3) The hadith is in the Muwattaʾ, 1/129 (Book of Congregational Prayer, chapter on the merit of praying in congregation). Through Malik it is also reported by Ahmad, 2/112; al-Bukhari, 2/30 (Book of Adhan, chapter on the merit of congregational prayer); and al-Nasaʾi, 2/103. It further appears in al-Tirmidhi, no. 215; Ibn Majah, no. 789; and Ahmad, 2/102 via the chain Ubayd Allah b. ʿUmar – Nafiʿ – Ibn ʿUmar. (*) Tarikh Jurjan, p. 470; Tadhkirat al-Huffaz, 3/1001.