(1) In the original reading: al-Saʿnānī; in our manuscripts and those of Ṭāʾ: al-Ṣafānī, which is incorrect. The correct reading is al-Musnad. He is Abu Bakr Muḥammad ibn Isḥāq ibn Jaʿfar al-Ṣāghānī, one of the reliable and accomplished imams, who traveled widely in pursuit of knowledge. Al-Daraqutnī describes him as thiqah (trustworthy), even above trustworthiness. He died in 290 AH. See: Ibn Abī Yaʿlā, Tabaqāt al-Ḥanābila, vol. 1, pp. 269–270; al-ʿAlīmī, al-Manhaj al-Aḥmad, vol. 1, p. 236. (2) In al-Musnad it reads: “inna minhu shay’an makhlūq” (that from Him there is something created). (3) Al-Lalkāʾī, Sharḥ Usūl Iʿtiqād Ahl al-Sunnah wa-l-Jamāʿah, vol. 2, p. 219. (4) In our manuscripts it appears as Faraj, which is erroneous. He is Abu Jaʿfar Aḥmad ibn Farḥ ibn Jibrīl al-Ḍarīr al-Muqriʾ; al-Khaṭīb al-Baghdādī describes him as thiqah (trustworthy) and maʾmūn (reliable), an expert in Arabic, linguistics, and the Qurʾān. He died in 303 AH. See: al-Baghdādī, Tārīkh Baghdād, vol. 4, pp. 345–346. (5) All manuscripts read “... al-Ḍarīr wa-haddathanī ...,” a reading corroborated by Sharḥ Usūl Iʿtiqād Ahl al-Sunnah. (6) All manuscripts read “al-Ḥusayn,” a reading also confirmed by Sharḥ Usūl Iʿtiqād Ahl al-Sunnah. He is Abu al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Hāshimī; he transmitted from Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā al-Marwazī, Jaʿfar al-Firyānī, and others, and was narrated upon by Abū Nuʿaym al-Isfahānī and others. See: al-Baghdādī, Tārīkh Baghdād, vol. 11, pp. 383–384. (7) The text enclosed in quotation marks is an addition drawn from Sharḥ Usūl Iʿtiqād Ahl al-Sunnah wa-l-Jamāʿah.