(1) The reading in manuscript A and the Ta' edition is al-Arabi; in manuscript B and the Za' edition, al-Maghribi. He is Hibban ibn Musa ibn Sawwar al-Sulami (Abu Muhammad al-Marwazi al-Kushmihani), a well-known muhaddith cited by Ibn Hibban in Al-Thiqāt. (Tahdhib al-Kamal 5:344) (2) Sulayman ibn Abd al-Rahman ibn ‘Isa ibn Maymun (Abu Ayyub al-Tamimi al-Dimashqi), maternal grandson of Shurahbil ibn Muslim al-Khulani. A muhaddith of Damascus and a reliable hafiz. (Siyar A‘lam al-Nubala’ 11:136) (3) Abu Mas‘ud, the proficient and trustworthy muhaddith, one of the leading imams. He died in this year or thereabouts. (Siyar A‘lam al-Nubala’ 11:454; Al-‘Ibar 1:414) (4) Abu Abd Allah, judge of Baghdad and author of al-Tasanif; he served as chief judge under al-Rashid, studied under Abu Yusuf and Muhammad, and lived to be over a hundred. (Siyar A‘lam al-Nubala’ 10:646) (5) Abu Abd Allah al-Dimashqi, scribe and author of al-Maghazi wa al-Futuh, al-Sawaif, and other useful works; he headed the tax bureau in Syria under al-Ma’mun and was a reliable historian. (Siyar A‘lam al-Nubala’ 11:104; Al-‘Ibar 1:414) (6) Yahya ibn Ayyub al-Miqabari (Abu Zakariya al-Baghdadi al-‘Abid), one of the imams of hadith and sunnah, a trustworthy scholar who died at the age of seventy-six. (Siyar A‘lam al-Nubala’ 11:386; Al-‘Ibar 1:415) (7) Abu Zakariya al-Baghdadi, a leading figure and ‘Proof of Islam’ (Hujjat al-Islam), Shaykh of the muhaddithin; al-Dhahabi lauded him as “master of the muhaddithin.” He composed al-Tarikh wa al-‘Illal fi al-Rijal and died in Medina while on pilgrimage. (Siyar A‘lam al-Nubala’ 11:71; al-A‘lam 8:172) (8) In the Ta' and Za' editions the reading is “Halbas”; here, as in al-Kamil by Ibn al-Athir (7:41), it appears as above. (9) “Rustaq”: villages or clustered dwellings, plural rusatiq (an Arabicized term). In al-Misbah al-Munir, al-rustaq denotes the frontier region of a province. (10) “Marand”: one of the famous towns of Azerbaijan, two days’ journey from Tabriz. (Yaqut)