(1) Al-Duʿafaʾ al-Kabir, 2/279. (2) MSS A, J, and T read: “al-hadith.” (3) MS J alone has: “fa-laysat.” (4) MS J vocalises the name as “ʿAnbasa ibni” (both words in the genitive), while D and H read “ʿAnbasa ibna” (both in the accusative); the adopted reading follows L. (5) ʿAnbasa b. ʿAbd al-Rahman b. ʿAnbasa b. Saʿid b. al-ʿAs al-Umawi is a discarded transmitter; Abu Hatim charged him with fabricating reports. Taqrib al-Tahdhib, p. 433. (6) In the margin of D, in the author’s own hand: “then it likewise reached.” (7) MS J reads “Sundur” with one damma; H has “Sundar” with one fatha; the preferred form is taken from K. (8) MS A says: “with a fath on the letter written without dots and with sukun on the nun” instead of “with the undotted letter and the nun,” and the margin of D simply notes: “with fath.” (9) MS J vocalises the name as “Jaʿfaru” (with damma); H has “Jaʿfar” (with final sukun); the word is omitted in the remaining copies. (10) MS M spells the name “Zanbaʿ” with an initial zay bearing fath; the adopted reading, supported by MSS J, D, H, W, Ḥ, K, and L, is “Zinbaʿ.” Al-Qari states in his Sharh Sharh al-Nukhba (p. 766): “with kasra on the zay, sukun on the nun, and in the singular form,” while al-Zabidi says in Taj al-ʿArus (21/144): “Zinbaʿ, on the pattern of qintar, is a proper name.” (11) MS B reads: “al-Judami” (with a plain dal). (12) Margin of J: “No one else attributes it to him.” (13) The book’s title is al-Mustafad bi-l-Nazari wa-l-Kitaba fi Maʿrifat al-Sahaba, as cited by Maghlatay in Ikmal Tahdhib al-Kamal, 2/215. Ibn al-Athir adds in Usd al-Ghaba, 1/10: “After them came the hadith master Abu Musa Muhammad b. Abi Bakr b. Abi ʿIsa al-Isfahani, who supplemented what Ibn Mandah had overlooked; his compilation is about two-thirds the size of Ibn Mandah’s work.”