(1) The material enclosed in the brackets is omitted in the printed edition. (2) Abu ʿAbd Allah Nuʿaym ibn Ḥammad ibn Muʿāwiya ibn al-Ḥārith al-Khuzaʿī al-Marwazī was a distinguished imam and prolific author, noted for his vigorous refutation of the Jahmiyya and other heterodox groups. His principal work is al-Musnad, which he is said to have been the first to compile and organize. He reportedly composed thirteen books against the Jahmiyya. He died in prison in Baghdad in 228 AH (843 CE) under Caliph al-Muʿtaṣim, as a result of his refusal to affirm the createdness of the Qur’an. Sources: Ṭabaqāt al-Kubrā (Ibn Saʿd) 7/519; al-Jarḥ wa al-Taʿdīl (Ibn Abī Ḥātim) 8/463–464; Tārīkh Baghdād (al-Baghdādī) 13/306–314; Siyar Aʿlām al-Nubalāʾ (al-Dhahabī) 10/595–612; Hadiyyat al-ʿĀrifīn (al-Baghdādī) 2/497; Geschichte der arabischen Literatur (Sezgin), Qurʾan und Ḥadīth 1/1/196–197. (3) This may be one of the thirteen works referred to in Nuʿaym ibn Ḥammad’s biography. (4) Abu Jaʿfar ʿAbd Allah ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allah ibn Jaʿfar ibn al-Imān al-Juʿfī al-Bukhārī, known as al-Musnadī because of his focus on musnad narrations—or because he was the first to compile a “Musnad of the Companions” in Transoxiana—died in 229 AH (844 CE). The sources consulted for his biography mention only his Musnad. Fuat Sezgin comments in Geschichte der arabischen Literatur, Qurʾan und Ḥadīth 1/1/149: “No work by ʿAbd Allah ibn Muḥammad al-Musnadī has reached us…”. Sources: al-Jarḥ wa al-Taʿdīl (Ibn Abī Ḥātim) 5/162; Tārīkh Baghdād (al-Baghdādī) 10/64–65; Siyar Aʿlām al-Nubalāʾ (al-Dhahabī) 10/658–660; Tahdhīb al-Tahdhīb (Ibn Ḥajar) 6/9; Shadharāt al-Dhahab (Ibn ʿImād) 2/67; al-Aʿlām (al-Ziriklī) 4/260; Maʿjam al-Muʾallifīn (Kaḥālah) 6/127. (5) Abu Saʿīd ʿUthmān ibn Saʿīd ibn Khālid al-Dārimī al-Sijistānī was a hadith scholar in Herat. Al-Dhahabī remarked: “ʿUthmān al-Dārimī was a formidable scourge in the eyes of the innovators, and he was the one who…”. [Text incomplete]