(1) In manuscript H: “al-Hazli,” which is erroneous. (2) The phrase “min al-khalq” (“from the creation”) does not appear in the other manuscripts. (3) In manuscripts H and R: “min Israfil ilayhi” (“from Israfil to him”). (4) In the other manuscripts: “wa baynahu wa baynahu” (“and between him and him”). (5) In H: “sab‘a hijab” (“seven veils”); in M: “tis‘ hijab” (“nine veils”). (6) Ibn al-Qayyim includes this report in Ijtima‘ al-Juyush al-Islamiyya, p. 74; al-Dhahabi cites it in al-‘Uluww, p. 93, remarking that its narrator Abu Bakr is weak. Abu Bakr is identified either as Salma (with the second m emphatic) b. ‘Abd Allah or as Ruh—see al-Taqrib 2:401. The chain attributes the hadith to Ishaq b. Bishr, who, as noted above (see note 28), is accused of lying. The report is therefore very weak. (7) In H and R: “anba’a” (“he informed”); in M: “anba’na” (“we were informed”). (8) In M: the name “Ahmad” appears alone; in H and R this name is omitted. (9) In H: “anba’a.” (10) In H: “anba’a.” (11) In M: “ibn Abu Ziyad”; in R: “ibn Abu Zinad”; in H: “bn al-Zinad” (omitting “Abu”). (12) Abu Nu‘aym records the hadith in al-Hilya 2:358; Ibn al-Qayyim in Ijtima‘ al-Juyush al-Islamiyya p. 75; al-Dhahabi in al-‘Uluww p. 97, describing its chain as sound. Shaykh al-Albani observes that in al-Hilya it appears via two routes from Sayyar, who narrated from Ja‘far: “I heard Malik b. Dinar report it.” Sayyar’s link to Ja‘far is through Ibn Sulayman al-Dab‘i (Ibn Hatim al-‘Anazi Abu Salama al-Basri), whom al-Hafiz in al-Taqrib characterizes as “trustworthy but prone to errors.” Al-Albani also includes the hadith in al-Mizan 2:253, deeming it sound. See further al-Albani’s Mukhtasar al-‘Uluww p. 131; al-Taqrib 1:343; al-Mizan 2:253.