Ali ibn Abi Talib fathered al-Hasan, al-Husayn, Muhammad ibn al-Hanafiyyah, ʿUmar, al-ʿAbbas, ʿUthman, Jaʿfar, ʿAbd Allah, ʿUbayd Allah, Abu Bakr, Yahya, Muhammad, and Muhammad—making thirteen sons. ⦗109⦘

His daughters were: Zaynab and Umm Kulthum, the two born to Fatimah al-Zahra; Ruqayyah the Elder; Umm al-Husayn; Ramlah; Zaynab the Younger; Umm Hani; Umm al-Karam; Umm Jaʿfar; Umm Salamah; Maymunah; Khadijah; Fatimah; Ummamah; and Umm Kulthum the Younger—fifteen daughters in all.

This text was collated with my own recitation, together with al-Husayn ibn Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn ʿUmar al-Ansari and Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Shirazi al-Maʿawi, on Sunday, the ninth of Jumada al-Awwal in the year 438 AH.

Abu Bakr ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Ahmad al-Akikzi heard the entire work from Shaykh Abu’l-Khayr al-Mubarak ibn ʿAbd al-Jabbar ibn Ahmad ibn al-Qasim—may Allah preserve him—in the year 464 AH.