(1) This is how it appears in the manuscript and it agrees with Muʿjam al-udabaʾ, 13/80. The name refers to a suburb of Damascus popularly called al-Hamriyya, also known as “al-Hamiriyyun,” which Yaqut lists in his geographical dictionary, 2/307, as a quarter outside Damascus on the canals. The place was named after a group from the Himyar tribe who settled there. In Hadiyyat al-ʿarifin the reading was corrupted to “Fadl al-Jamratayn.” (2) Fadhaya—spelled with fa and dotted dhal—is a village near Damascus (Muʿjam al-buldan, 4/241). The intended work is “Hadith of a Group from the People of Fadhaya,” as Yaqut states in Muʿjam al-udabaʾ, 13/80; the same applies to the other village names that follow. (3) The manuscript reads Qiyufa, which is wrong. Yaqut vocalised it with a damma on the qaf, sukun on the waw, and a final shortened fa: Qawfa, a village of Damascus (Muʿjam al-buldan, 1/521). (4) The manuscript has the incorrect form; the correct reading is Hardan, with ha (open), followed by a quiescent ra and dal: another Damascene village (Muʿjam al-buldan, 2/40). A manuscript copy exists; see the Selected Catalogue of Ẓahiriyya Hadith Manuscripts, p. 83. (5) Both names are villages of Damascus. In Ibn ʿAsakir’s book “Tarmis” was miscopied as “Tarms” by dropping the ya; the correct form is restored on p. 359. (6) Yaqut vocalised the name with kasra on the lam, sukun on the ha, and a final ya followed by alif maqsurah, adding: “this is how it is pronounced.” The correct form is Bayt Lahya, a well-known village in the Ghuta of Damascus. Poets have celebrated it often, e.g., the verses of Ahmad b. Munir al-Atrabulsi quoted here. The adjectival nisba is Batlahi. The village has now disappeared and the Central Bank stands on its site. (7) Yaʿquba—with an initial ya—is another village of the Ghuta of Damascus; Ibn Tulun mentions it under the letter ya in his work Darb al-Huta.