(1) It was narrated by Abū Dāwūd al-Sijistānī in Masā’il al-Imām Aḥmad, p. 269. He says: “Abū Bakr informed us, saying: ‘Abū Dāwūd informed us, saying: “Aḥmad ibn Hāshim al-Ramlī informed us, saying: ‘Damra…’”’.” (2) The text enclosed in parentheses is an addition found in manuscripts S and Ṭ and is required by the context. (3) He was Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ʿAbd Allāh ibn Shuʿayb al-Balkhī (later al-Basrī), resident of Bayt al-Maqdis. Aḥmad and others deemed him reliable; Ibn al-Mubārak and others transmitted from him. He was born in 86 AH and died in 156 AH. See: Ibn Abī Hāshim, al-Jarḥ wa’l-Taʿdīl, vol. 2/2, pp. 82–83; Ibn Ḥajar, Tahdhīb al-Tahdhīb, vol. 5, pp. 255–256; al-Dhahabī, Siyar Aʿlām al-Nubalāʾ, vol. 7, pp. 92–93. (4) In the original it appears as “Sariḥ,” confirmed by manuscripts S and Ṭ. He was al-Ḥārith ibn Sarīj al-Tamīmī, a native of Khurāsān. In 116 AH, during the caliphate of Hishām ibn ʿAbd al-Malik, he rebelled against its governor, then with his followers seized Balkh, Jūzjān, and surrounding regions, greatly increasing his power. He returned to Merv in 127 AH, where a conflict with Naṣr ibn Sayyār, the governor of Khurāsān, resulted in his death alongside al-Jahm ibn Ṣafwān in 128 AH. See: Ibn al-Athīr, al-Kāmil, vol. 5, p. 342 ff.; Ibn Kathīr, al-Bidāya wa’l-Nihāya, vol. 10, p. 31 ff.; al-Zarkalī, al-ʿAlām, vol. 2, pp. 155–156. (5) He was Abū ʿAbd Allāh Marwān ibn Muʿāwiya ibn al-Ḥārith ibn ʿUthmān al-Fazzāzī al-Kūfī, later of Damascus. He was an imām and ḥāfiẓ, deemed reliable by al-Nasaʾī and others, and traveled extensively in search of ḥadīth. He died in 193 AH. See: Ibn Abī Ḥātim, al-Jarḥ wa’l-Taʿdīl, vol. 4/1, pp. 272–273; al-Dhahabī, Siyar Aʿlām al-Nubalāʾ, vol. 9, pp. 51–54; Ibn Ḥajar, Tahdhīb al-Tahdhīb, vol. 10, pp. 96–98.