= Year 477. The author follows this dating in al-Ibar, and he had already mentioned it under the obituaries of the same year in the entry on al-Faramidhi. (1) Al-Wafi reads: “Otherwise, why lament at all?” (2) Al-Dhakhira has: “ʿAli, otherwise what is the cooing of the doves? * and in another recension: Otherwise, what is the weeping of the clouds?” (3) For a fuller version of these verses, see al-Dhakhira, 2/1/372 ff. The first line is also quoted in al-Wafi, 4/232, and in al-Hulla al-Sirāʾ, 2/148. (4) The same verse appears in al-Dhakhira, p. 376, as: “He refused to let God see him unless girded * with a sword-strap or bearing another’s indemnity.” – al-hamila is the sword-belt, the leather strap worn by the one who girds himself; al-hamala is the blood-money or financial penalty that one clan assumes on behalf of another. (*) Al-Wafi bi’l-wafayat, 7/272. The author will give his full notice again on p. 607.