(*) Ibn ʿAsakir, Taʾrikh Dimashq, vol. 12, pp. 280/1–281/1; Ibn al-Jawzi, Al-Muntazam, vol. 9, pp. 5 and 79; Yaqut, Muʿjam al-Udabaʾ, vol. 15, pp. 102–111; Ibn al-Athir, Al-Kamil, vol. 10, p. 128; Ibn Khallikan, Wafayat al-Aʿyan, vol. 3, pp. 305–306; Abu l-Fidaʾ, Al-Mukhtasar fi Akhbar al-Bashar, vol. 2, p. 194; al-Dhahabi, Duwal al-Islam, vol. 2, p. 17; Al-Mustafad min Dhayl Taʾrikh Baghdad, pp. 201–203; Tammat al-Mukhtasar, vol. 1, p. 573; Ibn Shakir, Fawat al-Wafayat, vol. 3, pp. 110–112; Ibn al-Yafiʿi, Mirʾat al-Jinan, vol. 3, pp. 143–144; Ibn Kathir, Al-Bidaya wa-l-Nihaya, vol. 12, pp. 123–124 and 145–146; Ibn Qadi Shuhba, Tabaqat (obituaries of the year 475); Al-Nujūm al-Zahira, vol. 5, pp. 115–116; Al-Suyuti, Tabaqat al-Huffaz, p. 444; Hajji Khalifa, Kashf al-Zunun, pp. 1637 and 1758; Ibn ʿImad, Shadharat al-Dhahab, vol. 3, pp. 381–382; Ismaʿil Basha, Hadiyyat al-ʿArifin, vol. 1, p. 693; Al-Risala al-Mustaṭrafa, p. 116; Muqaddimat al-Ikmal, vol. 1, pp. 7–8 and 18–61; Brockelmann, Geschichte der arabischen Litteratur, vol. 6, pp. 176–178 (Arabic translation). (1) Ibn Shakir, Fawat al-Wafayat, vol. 3, p. 110, omits the name “ʿAli” from his lineage. (2) Al-Muntazam, Muʿjam al-Udabaʾ, and Wafayat al-Aʿyan read “Ibn ʿAlkan” in place of “ʿAli.” (3) See p. 353, note (2). (4) The full title is Al-Ikmal fi Rafʿ ʿArid al-Irtayab ʿan al-Muʾtalif wa-l-Mukhtalif min al-Asmaʾ wa-l-Kuna wa-l-Ansab (“The Completion: Dispelling Doubt about Identical and Dissimilar Names, Kunyas, and Nisbas”). Its author collated the material found in Al-Muʾtalif wa-l-Mukhtalif by al-Darqutni, its continuation by al-Khatib al-Baghdadi, and both Al-Muʾtalif wa-l-Mukhtalif and Mushtabih al-Nisba by ʿAbd al-Ghani al-Azdi; he added what they missed, dropped entries where no confusion could arise, corrected their errors, and, where they disagreed, recorded every defensible view. See the author’s introduction. The work was edited by the late scholar ʿAbd al-Rahman b. Yahya al-Muʿallimi al-Yamani and published by the Osmania Oriental Publications Bureau, Hyderabad-Deccan, India. Ibn Nuqta al-Baghdadi (d. 629 AH) produced a supplement entitled Takmilat al-Ikmal. This supplement itself has a further Appendix (Dhayl) by Wajih al-Din Mansur b. Salim al-Hamadhani, market-inspector of Alexandria (d. 673 AH). A manuscript of the Dhayl is kept in the Egyptian National Library under no. 678-Taʾrikh; we possess a photographic copy. (5) Kashf al-Zunun records the title as Tahdhib Mustamir al-Awham. See Brockelmann, Geschichte der arabischen Litteratur, vol. 6, pp. 177–178 (Arabic version), which also lists manuscript copies of several of his works.