= ash-Shāfiʿī arrived in Baghdad during the caliphate of al-Maʾmūn and engaged in a public disputation with Bishr al-Marīsī on the Qurʾān. He authored several works, notably Kitāb al-Ḥaydah wa-l-Iʿtidhār fī Radd Man Qāla bi-Khalq al-Qurʾān (Repentance and Excuses in Refuting Those Who Asserted the Createdness of the Qurʾān). He died in 240 AH. See: al-Baghdādī, Tārīkh Baghdād 10: 449–450; Ibn Ḥajar, Taḥdhīb al-Taḥdhīb 6: 363–364; Ibn al-ʿImād, Shadharāt al-Dhahab 2: 95; Ḥājī Khalīfa, Kashf al-Ẓunūn 6: 694; al-Zarkalī, al-A‘lām 4: 154–155; Kaḥālah, Ma‘jam al-Mu’allifīn 5: 263. (1) Presumably the book al-Ḥaydah—the edition edited by Dr. Jamīl Sulaybā—was published. It records ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz al-Kanānī’s debate with Bishr al-Marīsī on the question of the Qurʾān’s createdness before al-Maʾmūn. (2) Al-Ḥāfiẓ Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ʿAbd Allāh b. Aḥmad b. Ḥanbal al-Shaybānī al-Baghdādī (213–290 AH) was a renowned hadith scholar and expert in its ʿilal (defects). He transmitted most extensively from his father, including al-Musnad, al-Tafsīr, al-Nāsikh wa-l-Mansūkh, and other works. His Kitāb al-Sunnah was first printed in Cairo in 1349 AH; reprinted in 1405 AH (ed. Muḥammad al-Sa‘īd Zaghlūl) in one volume; and in 1406 AH in two volumes (ed. Dr. Muḥammad b. Sa‘īd al-Qaḥṭānī), noted as the first complete edition (vol. 1, p. 15). See: al-Baghdādī, Tārīkh Baghdād 9: 375–376; Ibn Abī Ya‘là, Ṭabaqāt al-Ḥanābila 1: 180–188; Ibn Ḥajar, Taḥdhīb al-Taḥdhīb 5: 141–143; al-ʿAlīmī, al-Minhāj al-Aḥmad fī Tarājim Aṣḥāb al-Imām Aḥmad 1: 294–298; Ḥājī Khalīfa, Kashf al-Ẓunūn 2: 956; al-Baghdādī, Hadiyyat al-ʿĀrifīn 1: 442; al-Zarkalī, al-A‘lām 4: 189; Sezkin, Tārīkh al-Turāth al-ʿArabī 1 (3): 232. (3) In the original manuscript it reads “b. Ḥanbal,” which is erroneous; the printed edition’s reading is correct. (4) Abū ʿAlī Ḥanbal b. Isḥāq b. Ḥanbal b. Hilāl b. Asad al-Shaybānī, cousin of the imam…