(1) Abū ‘Alī al-Ḥasan ibn Isḥāq ibn al-‘Abbās, known as Niẓām al-Mulk and Qawwām al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī, one of the greatest viziers, died in 485 AH. His biography appears in al-Rawḍatayn (vol. 1, p. 25), Wafayāt al-Aʿyān (vol. 2, pp. 128–131), Abū al-Fidāʾ (vol. 2, p. 202), and al-ʿIbar (Beirut ed., vol. 2, p. 349). (2) ‘Abd al-Raḥmān ibn ‘Abd al-Majīd—called ‘Abd al-Ḥamīd in Nīl al-Ibtihāj—ibn Ismāʿīl al-Ṣafrawī al-Iskandarānī, Jamāl al-Dīn Abū al-Qāsim. Born 544 AH; a Mālikī jurist and qāriʾ, he studied under al-Sulafī and others. Died 636 AH. His biography is in al-ʿIbar (vol. 3, p. 227), Nīl al-Ibtihāj (p. 163), and al-Shudhūrāt (vol. 5, p. 180). (3) In the printed edition it reads baʿdahā; and Allah knows best. (4) ʿUllah: According to Ibn Khallikān—spelled with a wāw followed by a silent ʿayn, then lām and hāʾ—this cemetery is said either to be that of ‘Abd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿUllah al-Sabtī al-Miṣrī, companion of Ibn ʿAbbās (may God be pleased with him), or, as others contend, to another figure. It lies within the walls of Alexandria by the Green Gate, and contains the tombs of several pious men such as al-Ṭarṭūshī. (Wafayāt al-Aʿyān 1/106) (5) Not in the printed edition. (6) Abū al-Ṭayyib Ṭāhir ibn ‘Abd Allāh ibn Ṭāhir ibn ‘Umar al-Ṭabarī, the Shāfi‘ī judge and jurist. Born in Amul in 348 AH, he studied jurisprudence with Abū ‘Alī al-Zajjāj, Abū Sa‘d al-Ismā‘īlī, and Abū al-Qāsim ibn Kajj in Jurjān. He then went to Nishapur, where he studied under Abū al-Ḥasan al-Māserjī for four years, before settling in Baghdad. There he attended the circle of Abū Ḥāmid al-Asfarāʾīnī, studied under Abū Isḥāq al-Shīrāzī, wrote a commentary on al-Muzanī’s Mukhtaṣar, and authored numerous works on uṣūl (legal principles), madhhab, ikhtilāf (juristic disagreement), and jadal (dialectic). He became judge of the Karkh quarter after al-Ṣaymirī and remained in office until his death in 450 AH at the age of 102, still sound in mind and jurisprudential insight, issuing fatwas, correcting fellow jurists, presiding over cases in Baghdad, and attending the caliphal processions. (Ibn al-Athīr 8/87; Wafayāt al-Aʿyān 2/512–515; Abū al-Fidāʾ 2/179; al-ʿIbar [Beirut ed.] 2/296; Mirʾāt al-Jinān 3/70) (7) On the sole reading “a.” Bashshār states: “Ibn Khallikān’s assertion is entirely unfounded; we refuted it in what al-Dhahabī recorded in Ahl al-Miʾa Faṣāʾil and demonstrated its fallacy, citing dozens of individuals who lived past one hundred during the three centuries Ibn Khallikān mentioned.” (Majallat al-Mawrid, 5th Year, no. 1, p. 387) (8) His biography was provided earlier under Hawādith for the year 571. (9) Mukhtaṣar Ibn Manẓūr (vol. 3, p. 229); Badrān (vol. 1, p. 449).