(1) Abu Ismaʾil ʿAbdullah ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī al-Anṣārī al-Ḥarawī (d. 481 AH) – the leading scholar (shaykh) of Khurāsān in his time, renowned for his mastery of Arabic, his memorization of hadith, and his expertise in history and genealogy, as well as for promoting the Sunnah. Among his works is Dhamm al-Kalām (‘Condemning Idle Speech’), manuscript no. 1128 at the Zāhiriyya Library in Damascus, which was edited by Imam Burhān al-Dīn Ibrāhīm ibn ʿUmar al-Baqāʿī after he heard it (under the title Aḥsan al-Kalām, ‘The Best of Speech’) from Shihāb al-Dīn ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī in Cairo (846 AH). References: Kashf al-Zunūn (Ḥājjī Khalīfa) 1:828; Siyar Aʿlām al-Nubalāʾ (al-Ḏhahabī) 18:503–518; Al-Dhayl ʿalā Ṭabaqāt al-Ḥanābila (Ibn Rajab) 1:50–68; Al-Aʿlām (al-Zirkī) 4:267. (2) The name Abū al-Ḥasan al-Kurjī is unclear in the original text due to damage (some fragments read “al-Karjī”), but it is confirmed in manuscripts S and T as al-Kurjī. He is Abū al-Ḥasan Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿUmar al-Kurjī al-Shāfiʿī (d. 532 AH), shaykh and mufti of Karj, a jurist, hadith scholar, exegete and man of letters. His principal work is al-Fuṣūl fī Iʿtiqād al-Aʾimma al-Fuḥūl (‘Chapters on the Creed of the Eminent Imams’). Ibn Kathīr (al-Bidāya wa al-Nihāya 12:228) remarks: “Among his many works is al-Fuṣūl…, in which he presents the views of the salaf on creed and recounts noteworthy reports.” Al-Ḏhahabī (Darʾ Taʿāruḍ al-ʿAql wa al-Naql 2:95) lists the twelve imams mentioned therein: al-Shāfiʿī, Mālik, al-Thawrī, Aḥmad, Ibn ʿUyayna, Ibn al-Mubārak, al-Awzāʿī, al-Layth ibn Saʿd, Isḥāq ibn Rāhwayh, al-Bukhārī, Abū Zurʿa and Abū Ḥātim. For further details on al-Fuṣūl and its author, see: al-Muntaẓam (Ibn al-Jawzī) 10:75–76; Ṭabaqāt al-Shāfiʿiyya (al-Shabbakī) 6:137–147; Shatharāt al-Dhahab (Ibn al-ʿImād) 4:100; Kashf al-Zunūn (Ḥājjī Khalīfa) 2:1271; Hadiyyat al-ʿĀrifīn (al-Baghdādī) 2:87; Muʿjam al-Muʾallifīn (Kaḥḥāla) 10:258.