(1) Sād and jīm read “wa-bayd.” (2) In Gharīb al-Hadīth (3:159–160). (3) In Sharh Abyāt al-Mughnī (3:25), al-Baghdādī quotes al-Tabrīzī’s Tanqīh Islāh al-Mantiq as stating that al-Asma‘ī recited these two lines as verses by Manzūr ibn Marthad al-Asadī. He then mentions seeing this attribution in the margin of a copy of al-Sihāh, in Yāqūt’s handwriting. I have not found this attribution, or some of the other material quoted by al-Baghdādī, in the printed edition of Tahdhīb Islāh al-Mantiq (p. 70, Qabāwa edition). Al-‘Ukbarī also attributes the lines to Manzūr ibn Marthad in al-Mashūf al-Mu‘lam (p. 121). (4) Mīm reads “fa‘altu (I did),” with a dammah on the tā’, but the correct reading here has a kasrah, “fa‘alti (you did),” since the quotation follows Abū ‘Ubayd. This is his vocalization in Gharīb al-Hadīth, as Ibn Bulbul explicitly states. Abū Ja‘far Ahmad ibn ‘Ubayd, however, said: “Only with a dammah on the tā’.” The story behind the two lines supports this. See Islāh al-Mantiq (p. 35, Qabāwa edition), the marginal note in the Köprülü manuscript, and al-‘Ubāb al-Zākhir (2:652). (5) All manuscripts except kāf read “akhāka (your brother),” a scribal corruption. (6) All manuscripts read “lan … (will not …),” as does the Dār al-Kutub manuscript of Islāh al-Mantiq. The well-known reading is “lam … (did not …).” In mīm, “turinnī (you wail)” is vocalized with a dammah on the tā’ and a kasrah on the rā’; this is the transmitted reading. Al-Asma‘ī recited it with this vocalization and said: “Only arannat (she wailed) is used.” Al-Saraqustī mentions this in al-Af‘āl (3:4). The author’s subsequent statement, “tuf‘ilī, from ranīn (wailing),” explains the word and indicates its derivation; it does not mean that ranīn is the verb’s verbal noun.