(1) Yaḥyā ibn Maʿīn, Taʾrīkh, p. 226; al-Khaṭīb al-Baghdādī, Taʾrīkh Baghdād, 14/53. (2) Ibn Maʿīn, Taʾrīkh, p. 226; al-Khaṭīb al-Baghdādī, Taʾrīkh Baghdād, 14/53; Ibn Abī Ḥātim, al-Jarḥ wa-l-Taʿdīl, 9/85; al-ʿUqaylī, al-Ḍuʿafāʾ, fol. 430; Ibn ʿAdī, al-Kāmil, fol. 820. (3) al-Bukhārī, al-Taʾrīkh al-Kabīr, 8/218. The expression he uses here designates narrators whose reports are to be abandoned; it is the lowest and most severe level of discrediting in his scale. See al-Sakhāwī, Fatḥ al-Mughīth, p. 161. (4) al-Nasāʾī, al-Ḍuʿafāʾ wa-l-Matrūkīn, p. 104; al-Khaṭīb al-Baghdādī, Taʾrīkh Baghdād, 14/53; al-Dhahabī, Mīzān al-Iʿtidāl, 4/324; Ibn Ḥajar, Lisān al-Mīzān, 6/209. Abū Ḥātim said: “He is matrūk al-ḥadīth (his narrations are rejected); his standing is like that of al-Wāqidī.” Yaʿqūb ibn Shayba remarked: “He was knowledgeable about people’s affairs and their reports, but he was not strong in ḥadīth, nor well-versed in it; some scholars also questioned his truthfulness.” He is listed among the weak narrators by Ibn al-Sakan, Ibn Shāhīn, Ibn al-Jārūd and al-Dāraquṭnī (Lisān al-Mīzān, 6/210). (5) al-Ṣulah – with a short i followed by a sukūn and a soft ḥāʾ – is a district above Wāsiṭ. A canal branching from the Tigris on its eastern bank is called “Famm al-Ṣulah” (the mouth of al-Ṣulah). The vizier al-Ḥasan ibn Sahl had his residence there, and it was at al-Ṣulah that the caliph al-Maʾmūn consummated his marriage with Burān, daughter of al-Ḥasan ibn Sahl. See: al-Samʿānī, al-Ansāb, 8/83; Yāqūt, Muʿjam al-Buladān, 3/421 and 4/276; Ibn Khallikān, Wafayāt al-Aʿyān, 1/290; Ibn ʿAbd al-Munʿim al-Ḥimyarī, al-Rawḍ al-Miʿṭār, p. 358. (*) Abū al-Faraj al-Iṣfahānī, Maqātil al-Ṭālibiyyīn, p. 353; al-Khaṭīb al-Baghdādī, Taʾrīkh Baghdād, 2/113-115; Ibn al-Athīr, al-Kāmil, 6/311; al-Dhahabī, al-ʿIbar, 1/342; Ibn Wāṣil, ʿUyūn al-Tawārīkh, 7/fols. 170-171; Ibn Khaldūn, Taʾrīkh, 3/244; Ibn al-ʿImād, Shadharāt al-Dhahab, 2/7.