(1) Manuscripts *fā*, *zā*, *yā*, and *zāy* read: “Now, to proceed.” (2) The manuscripts other than the base manuscript read: “concise, containing therein.” (3) Manuscript *zā* reads “reports,” while *tā* reads “verses.” A marginal note in manuscript *zāy* states: “Perhaps it should read *al-wilāya* (‘governance’), as indicated by the end of the sentence.” The correct reading adopted here is from the remaining manuscripts. *Al-iyāla* means “administration.” See *Lisān al-Arab*, 11:36. The author states this explicitly in *Majmū al-Fatāwā*, 22:463, as does Ibn al-Qayyim in *Jalā al-Afhām*, p. 229 (Alam al-Fawāid edition). (4) The base manuscript and manuscript *yā* read: “nor.” (5) The title page of manuscript *lām* identifies the emir for whom the treatise was written. It reads: “The Book of Governance … He—may Allah have mercy on him—composed it when Emir Qays (thus in the manuscript; correctly, Āqush) al-Mansūrī asked him to do so, and he granted his request. He composed it in a single night—may Allah be pleased with him and cause him to be pleased.” See the Introduction for the correction of his name and biographical information about him. (6) Muslim (1715) narrated it from Abū Hurayra—may Allah be pleased with him. (7) Manuscript *zāy* reads *mabniyya* (“founded”). A marginal annotation states: “The word *mabniyya* is an adjective modifying *risāla* (‘treatise’). As for *al-risāla* (‘the treatise’), perhaps it was intended as *ay al-risāla* (‘that is, the treatise’). It had been in the margin and was then inserted into the main text.” (8) The reading adopted here is from manuscripts *yā* and *zāy*. It is supported by the author’s wording in a manuscript treatise: “the verse concerning those in authority.” The base manuscript reads: “that it is the command”; manuscript *tā* reads: “two verses from,” which al-Uthaymīn preferred in his *Commentary* (p. 17); and manuscript *zā* and some other copies read: “the Verse of Command.”