(1) Ibn al-Jawzi: al-Mir’ah fī Zaman, vol. 8: 323; Dhayl al-Mir’ah fī Zaman, vol. 1: 332–341; al-Mukhtasar fī Akhbār al-Bashar, vol. 3: 197; Tārīkh al-Islām, vol. 14: 854; Siyar A‘lam al-Nubalā’, vol. 23: 372–374; al-‘Ibar, vol. 5: 237; al-I‘lām bi Wafayāt al-A‘lam: 274; al-Fawāt bi al-Wafayāt, vol. 4: 351–353; Dhayl Ṭabaqāt al-Ḥanābila, vol. 2: 258–261; al-Nujūm al-Zāhira, vol. 7: 68; al-Maqṣad al-Arshad, vol. 3: 138; al-Dāris, vol. 2: 29–31; Mukhtaṣar Tanbīh al-Ṭālib: 122; Shudhūr al-Dhahab, vol. 7: 494–495; Munādamat al-Aṭlāl: 227–228. (2) In Edition A nothing appears between the parentheses. (3) There is considerable disagreement about Ibn al-Jawzi’s lineage tracing back to Abu Bakr. I have preferred to record the variant found in our primary sources rather than those in later compendia (see al-Mir’ah fī Zaman, vol. 8: 300; Dhayl al-Rawdatayn: 21; Wafayāt al-A‘yān, vol. 3: 140; Dhayl Ṭabaqāt al-Ḥanābila, vol. 1: 399; al-Dāris, vol. 2: 31). (4) Variant readings: Edition A reads “ʿAlī ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAbd Allāh,” whereas in Edition B it appears as “ibn ʿAlī ibn ʿUbayd Allāh ibn ʿAbd Allāh.” (5) In our principal sources his name is given as Hammad. Ibn Khallikān explains that it was pronounced Humaadi, with a doubled m and a final yā’ (see his Biographical Dictionary). (6) In both Editions A and B the name appears as al-Naḍr ibn al-Qāsim ibn Muḥammad. (7) The nisba al-Jawzi has been variously explained. Dhayl al-Mir’ah (vol. 8: 310) cites Dihya al-Maghribī’s note that Ja‘far al-Jawzi was so called after a farḍa (district) of Basra named Jawza. Wafayāt al-A‘yān similarly derives it from the Basran suburb of Jawza (with jīm, wāw-sukūn, zāy). Others define farḍat al-nahr as the watering place or farḍat al-bahr as the ship-landing site. al-Mundhirī and ʿAbd al-Samad ibn Abī al-Jaysh both link it to a quarter of Basra called mahalat al-Jawz, while some assert it refers to his dwelling in Jawza, near Wāsiṭ. Dhayl Ṭabaqāt al-Ḥanābila (vol. 1: 400) records these variants. Riyāḍ judges al-Subṭī’s account—the grandson of Ibn Kathīr and thus more closely acquainted with his ancestor’s origins—to be the most plausible. (8) The printed edition reads: “He continued to rise in worldly ranks and held [high offices]….” This phrase is absent from the two other principal editions and from al-Dāris, which reproduces Ibn al-Jawzi’s biography verbatim from Ibn Kathīr.