(1) In manuscripts H and R there is the addition “and the earth.” (2) Al-Khaṭṭābī states that al-hawb (plural al-huwaba) means sin, as in the Quranic phrase “Indeed it was a great hawb” (Quran 4:2). The plural al-huwaba is also written with an initial h and an inserted h. See Maʿālim al-Sunan, marginal commentary on Sunan Abu Dawud, vol. 4, p. 218. (3) In manuscripts H and R: “anzala alayna” (sent down upon us). (4) In manuscripts H and R: “ala hadha” (upon this). (5) See Sunan Abu Dawud, Book of Medicine, chapter “How the ruqyah is performed,” hadith no. 3892 (4/218); also recorded by Ahmad in al-Musnad (6/21); al-Darimi in al-Radd ’ala al-Jahmiyya (p. 18); al-Bayhaqi in al-Asma’ wa’l-Sifat (p. 533); al-Dhahabi in al-ʿUlu (p. 27); and al-Lalkai in Sharh Usul Iʿtiqad Ahl al-Sunna, hadith no. 648 (2/389). Its isnad includes Ziyad b. Muhammad al-Ansari. Al-Dhahabi in al-ʿUlu characterizes the hadith as weak; al-Bukhari, al-Nasa’i, and Abu Hatim label it munkar (rejected); Ibn Hibban calls it very weak (munkar jiddan), noting that weak narrators report from prominent ones, thus deserving abandonment. See at-Tahdhib by Ibn Hajar (3/393). (6) The full name appears only in the original manuscript; in the other copies it is simply “Muhammad b. Abdul-Baqi.” (7) “Abu al-Fadl” does not occur in the other manuscripts. (8) In the other manuscripts it appears only as “Abu Ali b. Shadhan.” (9) The full name appears in the original; in the remaining copies it appears only as “Abu Sahl b. Ziya.” (10) “b. Ziad” does not occur outside the original manuscript. (11) He is Imran b. Khalid b. Taliq b. Muhammad b. Imran b. Husayn.