The verb *adhanat* means “to inform.” *bisarm*: *sarm* denotes cutting off, cessation or disappearance. *hidaʾ*: swift, rapid. *subaba*: the small remainder of a drink that stays at the bottom of a vessel. *yatasabbuha*: al-Qamus says, “tasababtu al-maʾ: I drank its *subaba* (last drops).” *qaʿr* of a thing: its bottom. *kaziz*: filled to the brim. *qaruḥat*: i.e. their stomachs developed sores and wounds because of the rough leaves they were eating. See al-Istīʿāb 8/12 and Usd al-Gābah 3/566-567. (*) Principal biographical sources: Ibn Saʿd, al-Tabaqat 13/1/64; Khalifa, al-Tabaqat p. 35; Khalifa, al-Tarikh pp. 102-103; al-Bukhari, al-Tarikh al-Kabir 7/86 and al-Tarikh al-Saghir 1/34; Ibn Qutayba, al-Maʿarif pp. 273-274; Ibn Abi Hatim, al-Jarh wa-l-Taʿdil 7/39; Ibn Hibban, Mashahir ʿUlamaʾ al-Amsar, no. 50; Abu Nuʿaym, Hilyat al-Awliyaʾ 1/12; al-Istīʿāb 8/112; Usd al-Gābah 4/67; al-Nawawi, Tahdhib al-Asmaʾ wa-l-Lughat 1/338; al-Dhahabi, al-ʿIbar 1/13; al-Haythami, Majmaʿ al-Zawaʾid 9/304; al-Faqihi, al-ʿIqd al-Thamin 6/116-117; Ibn Hajar, al-Isabah 7/32; Ibn ʿImad, Shadharāt al-Dhahab 1/36. (1) Thus reads the base manuscript. Muʿjam al-Buldan 4/212 has “al-Ghamrah,” as does the Sira 2/612. Yaqut describes it as a watering place on the Meccan road, marking the boundary between Tihama and Najd. Ibn al-Faqih adds that Ghamrah lay within the lands of Medina on the Najd route; the Prophet sent ʿUkasha b. Mihsan there with forty men. When they reached al-Ghamr, the inhabitants, having learned of their approach, fled. He camped at their wells, dispatched scouts, located their livestock and seized two hundred camels, which he drove back to Medina. See the sira works, the annalistic chronicles and Muʿjam al-Buldan. (2) The episode is recorded in al-Hakim 3/228. Buzakhah was a watering place of the Banu Asad where a major engagement took place during Abu Bakr’s caliphate against Tulayha b. Khuwaylid al-Asadi.