= al-Ḥusayn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Baghdādī al-Bazzāz, a trustworthy muhaddith; died 565 AH. See Shadharāt al-Dhahab 4/215. (1) In other manuscripts: Abū Bakr al-Ṭuraythīthī. He is Aḥmad ibn ʿAlī ibn Zakariyyā al-Ṭuraythīthī, a Sufi master in Khurāsān, died 497 AH. See al-Subkī, Ṭabaqāt al-Shāfiʿiyya 4/39. Ibn al-Athīr explains that al-Ṭuraythīthī—Ṭā with kasra, Rā with fatḥa, the doubled Yā’ silent—denotes a nisba to Ṭuraythīth, a large district of Naysābūr. See al-Lubāb 2/281. (2) In the remaining manuscripts: Abū al-Qāsim al-Ṭabarī. (3) al-Masʿūdī: ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿUtba ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Masʿūd, a Kufan of the Ḥudhayl, known as al-Masʿūdī. Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal and Yaḥyā ibn Maʿīn: “Trustworthy.” ʿAlī ibn al-Madīnī: “Trustworthy, though he erred occasionally in narrations from ʿĀṣim ibn Bahdala and Salama.” Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Numayr: “al-Masʿūdī is reliable; his ending was conflated.” Died 160 AH. See Siyar Aʿlām al-Nubalāʾ 7/93; al-Tahdhīb 6/210. (4) In the other copies: ʿUbayd, which is an error. (5) “(From Abū Hurayra)” appears only in the original. What other manuscripts record as a mursal (disconnected) chain matches Imam Mālik’s version in al-Muwaṭṭāʾ. Muḥammad Fuʾād ʿAbd al-Bāqī comments: Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr considered it apparently mursal, but understood it as connected (muttasil) because ʿUbayd Allāh met a group of Companions. al-Zurqānī notes the issue: if so, no mursal narration would ever occur; perhaps he meant that ʿUbayd Allāh met those Companions who transmitted the ḥadīth. Al-Ḥāfiẓ al-Mizzī lists thirteen ḥadīths narrated by ʿUbayd Allāh from Abū Hurayra, some in al-Ṣaḥīḥ. See Tuḥfat al-Ashrāf 10/241–244. (6) “(ʿAtq)” is not found in the other manuscripts.