(1) Had there been any religious or even worldly benefit for people in seeking out the relics, dwellings, and graves of the prophets, Allah would have directed us to it; the majority of those sites would not have remained unknown to humankind. (2) The printed edition reads: mimma. (3) ʿUthman ibn Muhammad ibn Ibrahim ibn ʿUthman al-ʿAbsi, Abu al-Hasan Ibn Abi Shaybah—the compiler of a well-known tafsir and musnad—was a tenth-generation Kufan transmitter, famous and reliable, though he made some slips. Ibn Hajar writes in Taqrib al-Tahdhib: “Reliable, memoriser, well-known; he had some errors, and it is said he did not memorise the Quran.” He died in 239 AH at the age of eighty-three. See: Taqrib al-Tahdhib 2:13–14, no. 107. (4) Hashim ibn al-Qasim ibn Muslim al-Laythi, their freedman, al-Baghdadi—kunya Abu al-Nadr, nicknamed Qaysar—was a ninth-generation Baghdadi transmitter. Ibn Hajar calls him in Taqrib al-Tahdhib “reliable and firmly grounded.” He died in 207 AH at the age of seventy-three. See: Ibn Saʿd, al-Tabaqat al-kubra 7:335; Taqrib al-Tahdhib 2:314, no. 39 h. (5) ʿAbd al-Rahman ibn Thabit ibn Thawban al-Ansi al-Dimashqi was considered truthful but prone to error; he died in 165 AH. See: Taqrib al-Tahdhib 1:474, no. 886. The author will discuss him in the main text below. (6) Hasan ibn ʿAtiyya al-Muharibi, their freedman, Abu Bakr al-Dimashqi, was a reliable, devout jurist. He died shortly after 120 AH. See: Taqrib al-Tahdhib 1:162, no. 237 h.