(1) Al-Dhahabi does not point out this discrepancy in al-Mushtabih (p. 504); he simply writes: “With a fa followed by a sukūn, referring to the trade of selling bed-covers: Abu Tahir Barakat b. Ibrahim al-Khushuʿi al-Farshi, as stated by Ibn al-Anmati and others.” Ibn Hajar, in al-Tabsir (3 / 1165), likewise makes no corrective remark. Ibn Khallikan records the name exactly as his teacher al-Mundhiri does—see the wording already cited—adding: “Al-Anmati, the one who also sells bed-covers… I met his son in Egypt; he used to visit me frequently and granted me a complete ijaza for all that he had heard and received from his father” (Wafayat, 1 / 270). In our view al-Mundhiri knew precisely what he was recording, for we know that al-Khushuʿi gave him an ijaza in Damascus in Safar 595 and a second one in Dhu al-Qaʿda of the same year, and he may well have written this very nisba in his own hand on the document. Yet observe what the Damascene scholar Ibn Nasir al-Din says when commenting on al-Dhahabi’s remark in his Tawdih of al-Mushtabih: “I say: Ibn Khallikan stated that the ascription to Quraysh is a scribal error.” I myself have seen the nisba with a qaf, in the handwriting of the transmitter Abu Tahir al-Khushuʿi: “ʿAli b. Muhammad b. ʿAbd Allah b. Abi Tahir Barakat b. Ibrahim b. Tahir al-Khushuʿi al-Qurashi.” The version with the qaf is the one generally known. Abu l-Fath ʿUmar b. al-Hajib al-Amini, in his Mashyakha, gives an excellent pedigree—which I have also seen in his own hand—reading: “Ibrahim b. Barakat b. Ibrahim b. Tahir b. Barakat b. Ibrahim b. ʿAli b. Muhammad b. Ahmad b. al-ʿAbbas b. Hashim al-Qurashi ibn al-Farshi, known as al-Khushuʿi.” (Vol. 2, fol. 197 of the Zahiriyya copy.) Nothing in the printed Wafayat supports Ibn Khallikan’s alleged statement that al-Qurashi is a corrupted reading. The conclusion is that the man was Qurashi by descent and was also called al-Farshi because he sold bedding; each group kept one nisba and ignored the other—so it seems. (*) The house of al-Zaki was one of Damascus’s prominent families; they were the maternal uncles of the Damascene hadith master and historian Ibn ʿAsakir.