(1) His biographical notice is found in al-Dhahabi’s Mishyakha, folio 96. (2) He is Baybars b. Abd Allah al-Turki, Ala al-Din Abu Saad al-Uqayli al-Majdi. Al-Dhahabi writes in his Mishyakha, folio 39: “An aged shaykh with high isnad, pleasant in appearance and dress … He died on 9 Dhu al-Qiʿda 713 AH, a little past ninety.” (3) Muslim also recorded the hadith (no. 498) in the Book of Prayer, chapter “Everything that sums up the description of the prayer and with which it opens”; Abu Dawud (no. 783) in the Book of Prayer, chapter “Those who held that the basmalah is not to be pronounced aloud”; and Ahmad 6/31, 194, all through the chain of Husayn al-Muallim, from Badil b. Maisarah, from Abu al-Jawza, from Aisha. She said: “The Messenger of Allah would open the prayer with the takbir and recite with ‘Praise be to Allah, Lord of the worlds.’ When he bowed he neither raised his head high nor lowered it excessively, but kept it between the two. After rising from bowing he would not prostrate until he had stood upright, and after lifting his head from prostration he would not prostrate again until he had sat upright. In every two rakahs he recited the tashahhud. He spread his left foot and kept his right foot upright. He forbade ‘uqbat al-shaitan and forbade a man to spread his forearms like a beast of prey. He ended the prayer with the salam.” Ibn Majah also transmitted a shortened version (no. 869) through Husayn al-Muallim from Badil with this chain. “He did not yushkhis (raise) his head” means he did not lift it up, and “he did not yusawwib (lower) it” means he did not bend it sharply downward but kept a balanced position between raising and lowering it. “Uqbat al-shaitan” refers to sitting with the buttocks on the ground, the shins upright, and the hands on the ground, as a dog or other beasts of prey spread themselves. (4) His biographical notice will appear below on p. 192, no. 109. (5) His biographical notice will appear below on p. 90, no. 51.