(1) In manuscript M: “waqala” (he said). In manuscripts H and R: “qala” (he said). (2) al-Abwa: a village in the al-Faraʿ district of Medina, located on the road to al-Juhfa about 23 miles from Medina, which contains the tomb of Amina bint Wahb, the Prophet’s mother. See: Muʿjam al-Buldan, vol. 1, p. 79. (3) In other manuscripts: “yajid” (he finds). (4) Surah al-Maʾida, verse 6. (5) Masṭaḥḥ ibn Athatha ibn ʿAbbad ibn al-Muttalib ibn ʿAbd Manaf ibn Qusay al-Muttalibi. His given name was ʿAwfa, while Masṭaḥḥ was his nickname. His mother was a maternal cousin of Abu Bakr. He was among those involved in the slander against ʿĀʾisha; God then revealed ten verses vindicating her at the beginning of Surah al-Nūr, and the Prophet ﷺ ordered the flogging of Masṭaḥḥ and the others involved, enacting the hadd for slander in obedience to God’s command. See: Tafsīr Ibn Kathīr, vol. 6, p. 19; al-Isāba, vol. 6, p. 93. (6) Reported by Abū Nuʿaym in al-Hilya, vol. 2, p. 45; by al-Dārimī in his Refutation of the Jahmiyya, p. 22; and in his Refutation of Bishr al-Muraysī, p. 15, on the authority of Ibn Abī Mulayka, who relayed from Dhakwān, the chamberlain of ʿĀʾisha, that Ibn ʿAbbās entered upon her as she was dying… Neither ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Abī Bakr nor any other person is mentioned. Ibn Kathīr also includes it in al-Bidāya wa-l-Nihāya, vol. 8, pp. 93–94. It is further transmitted by al-Ḥākim in his Mustadrak, vol. 4, p. 8, who deemed its isnād sound, though neither al-Bukhārī nor Muslim recorded it; al-Ḏhahabī affirmed this in his Talkhīṣ al-Mustadrak. (7) In other manuscripts: “Muḥammad” only. (8) In other manuscripts: “Ḥamad.”