(1) I was unable to locate this statement in the sources available to me. (2) Manuscript B adds the honorific radiya Allahu ʿanhu (may Allah be pleased with him). The Companion in question is Muʿadh ibn Jabal ibn ʿAmr ibn Aws al-Ansari al-Khazraji, Abu ʿAbd al-Rahman. One of the seventy Ansar who pledged at al-ʿAqabah, he fought in every campaign with the Prophet, was recognised as one of the most learned Companions in the Qur’an, and was praised by the Prophet as the community’s foremost authority on what is lawful and unlawful. The Prophet sent him to Yemen as a judge and teacher; he returned to Madina during Abu Bakr’s caliphate, campaigned in Syria under Abu ʿUbaydah, and assumed command of the army when the plague struck. Muʿadh died in the Jordan region in 18 AH/639 CE at the age of thirty-three. See: Usd al-Ghabah 4:376–378; al-Isabah, no. 8037; Ghāyat al-Nihāyah 2:301, no. 3620. (3) Manuscript B reads: “then Allah, exalted be He, mentioned.” (4) Manuscript AṬ reads: “in the Hereafter.” (5) The printed edition has: “from the curse, from the Fire, and from the everlasting punishment in the Hereafter,” which differs from the other copies. (6) The printed edition reads: “what Allah has promised the believers.”