(1) This dating presupposes that his birth took place in 511 AH. Al-Zaki al-Mundhiri, however, states in Al-Takmila that he was born in one of the two Jamada months of 512 AH. When Ibn al-Dubaythi questioned him personally, he confirmed the latter date (Paris MS 5922, fol. 152). Yet both Ibn al-Dubaythi and his colleague Ibn Nuqta quote Abu Bakr Muhammad b. al-Mubarak b. Mashq as saying that ʿAbd al-Khaliq b. al-Bundar was born on the night of Wednesday, 18 Jumada al-Akhira 511 AH (see also Al-Taqyid, fol. 164). Al-Zaki al-Mundhiri reports the 511 date with some reserve, introducing it with the formula “it is said”; the later scholar al-Saʾin al-Naʿal (d. 659 AH) follows al-Mundhiri in recording both versions. (2) The author records her under the deaths of 595 AH, whereas al-Zaki al-Mundhiri places her among the obituaries of 594 AH in Al-Takmila, writing: “On the night of 13 Dhu l-Hijja died the shaykha Asmaʾ bt. Muhammad b. al-Hasan b. Tahir al-Dimashqiyya. She had listened to the judge of Damascus Abu l-Mafadil Yahya b. ʿAli b. ʿAbd al-Aziz al-Qurashi and to Abu Muhammad ʿAbd al-Karim b. Hamza al-Sulami, and she herself transmitted” (biography 457). Curiously, al-Dhahabi gives her two separate notices in Tarikh al-Islam, with slight differences, apparently unaware that he was repeating the entry. The first, placed under the year 594 AH, reads: “Asmaʾ bt. Muhammad b. al-Hasan b. Tahir b. al-Bazzaz al-Dimashqiyya. She heard from ʿAbd al-Karim b. Hamza—her grandfather—and from Abu l-Mafadil Yahya b. ʿAli the judge. Narrated from her: Yusuf b. Khalil, her son Zayn al-Umana Abu l-Barakat, al-Shihab Ismail al-Qawsi and others. She died on 13 Dhu l-Hijja. She was the sister of Amina, mother of the chief qadi Muhyi al-Din Abu l-Maʿali Muhammad b. al-Zaki” (fol. 193, Ahmed III 2917/14). The second, filed under 595 AH, says: “Asmaʾ daughter of Abu l-Barakat Muhammad b. al-Hasan b. al-Bazzaz al-Dimashqiyya. She transmitted from her maternal grandfather Abu l-Mafadil Yahya b. ʿAli the judge. Those who narrated from her include her grandson, the genealogist ʿIzz al-Din Muhammad b. Ahmad, Yusuf b. Khalil and al-Shihab al-Qawsi. She married her cousin Muhammad, brother of the hafiz Ibn Asakir. She died in Dhu l-Hijja” (fol. 198 of the same manuscript). (3) The autograph reads “al-Ran,” an obvious corruption; the correct form, taken from Tarikh al-Islam and from the biography of her sister Amina in Al-Takmila (bio. 497), is “bint al-Bazzaz.”