Second Note
The author states in the footnote on page 43: “As for combining placing (waḍʿ) and clasping (qabḍ), that is an innovation (bidʿah).”

I say: Declaring this practice to be downright innovative is debatable. It is plain that whoever clasps his right hand over his left has already placed it there, for clasping cannot occur without prior placing. The apparent purport of the ḥadiths is that the Prophet ﷺ sometimes clasped his right hand over his left and at other times merely placed it there without clasping. Clasping necessarily entails placing, though the converse is not true. Since clasping can only come after placing, how can the one who does so be branded an innovator?

Third Note
In the footnote on page 48, commenting on the Prophet’s ﷺ famous supplication, “and evil is not attributed to You,” the author writes: “That is, evil is not ascribed to Allah—Exalted is He—because it is not among His acts. All of His acts are good, revolving between justice, grace, and wisdom; all of this is pure good with no evil in it. A thing becomes evil only when its connection and attribution to Him—Exalted is He—is severed.”