And the book at-Tasdīd ilā Maʿrifat al-Tawḥīd (Guidance to the Knowledge of Monotheism) and others. He was born in 403 AH and died in 474 AH. See: Tabyīn Kaḏb al-Muftaṛī (Clarification of the Libeller’s Falsehood) by Ibn Asākir, vol. 6, pp. 250–252; Tadhkirat al-Ḥuffāẓ (Memoir of the Ḥuffāẓ) by al-Ḏahabī, vol. 3, pp. 1178–1183; al-Wāfī bil-Wafayāt (The Comprehensive Registry of Obituaries) by al-Ṣafadī, vol. 15, pp. 372–374. (1) Originally the text reads “Ibn al-Fāris,” which is an error. He is Abū Bakr Muḥammad b. ʿAbd Allāh b. Muḥammad al-Ishbīlī al-Mālikī, known as Ibn al-ʿArabī, the jurist, memorizer, and judge. He authored works in various fields, among them ʿĀriḍat al-Aḥwadhī fī Sharḥ al-Ṭirmidhī and al-ʿAwāṣim min al-Qawāṣim (both printed), and others. He was born in 468 AH and died in 543 AH. See: Wafayāt al-Aʿyān by Ibn Khallikān, vol. 4, pp. 296–297; Tadhkirat al-Ḥuffāẓ by al-Ḏahabī, vol. 4, pp. 1294–1298; al-Wāfī bil-Wafayāt by al-Ṣafadī, vol. 3, p. 330. (2) In manuscript S: “muʿtarifūn.” In the printed edition: “wa-muʿtarifūn.” (3) The original reads “al-mutafāwiḍīn,” but I have retained what appears correct in both manuscript S and the printed edition. (4) He is Abū ʿAbd Allāh ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. al-Qāsim b. Khālid b. Jināda, a freedman of Zubayd b. al-Hārith al-ʿAtqī. He narrated the Muwattaʾ from Mālik with a sound, low-variance transmission. He was a jurist and a pious man who moved to Medina, studied under Imam Mālik for twenty years, and later taught Ṣahnūn. He was born in Egypt in 128 AH and died there in 191 AH. See: al-Jarḥ wa-al-Taʿdīl by Ibn Abī Ḥātim, vol. 2, p. 279; al-Intiqāʾ by Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr, pp. 50–51; Tadhkirat al-Ḥuffāẓ by al-Ḏahabī, pp. 356–357. (5) Ibn Wahb: his biography was given above, p. 136. (6) He is Abū ʿUmar Ashhab b. ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz b. Dāwūd b. Ibrāhīm al-Qaysī, then al-Jaʿdī, from… [text incomplete].