(1) Manuscripts (B) and (A) read “pecking,” which is a textual corruption. (2) The words “by it” are absent from manuscripts (B) and (A). (3) The phrase “may Allah be pleased with him” is added in manuscripts (A) and (B). (4) Manuscripts (Ayn), (N), and (M) read: “Bishr ibn Abī Artāh,” which is incorrect. Abū Artāh was Umayr ibn Uwaymir ibn Imrān. Scholars differ as to whether Busr heard directly from the Prophet—may Allah bless him and grant him peace. He was one of Mu'āwiya’s commanders—may Allah be pleased with him—and served as one of his governors over Basra and Yemen. Mu'āwiya instructed him to identify those in Yemen and the Hijaz who remained loyal to Alī and to take action against them, which he did. It is said that he treated the people of Yemen violently and oppressed them. According to the stronger view, Busr died in 86 AH after suffering mental confusion. See his biography in: *al-Isāba*, 1/152; *al-Isti'āb*, 1/161–171; *al-Jarh wa-l-Ta'dīl*, vol. [0–9], part [0–9], pp. [0–9] 22, 423; *Tabaqāt Ibn Sa'd*, 7/409; al-Khazrajī’s *al-Khulāsa*, p. [0–9] 0; and *al-A'lām*, 1/23–24. (5) Abū Dāwūd narrated in *al-Sunan*, 4/200 (Book of Legal Punishments, chapter “A Man Who Steals during a Military Campaign: Is His Hand to Be Amputated?”), from Junāda Abī Umayya, who said: “We were with Busr ibn Artāh at sea when a thief named Misdar was brought before him. He had stolen a Bactrian she-camel. Busr said, ‘I heard the Messenger of Allah—may Allah bless him and grant him peace—say: “Hands are not to be amputated while traveling.” Were it not for that, I would have amputated his hand.’” The hadith also appears in *Sunan al-Tirmidhī*, 3/5 (Book of Legal Punishments, chapter “Reports That Hands Are Not to Be Amputated during a Military Campaign”). Al-Tirmidhī said: “This is a *gharīb* (singularly transmitted) hadith. A narrator other than Ibn Lahī'a also transmitted it through this *isnād* (chain of transmission) in approximately the same wording.” The hadith from Busr also appears in *Sunan al-Nasā'ī*, 8/84 (Book of Amputating the Thief’s Hand, chapter “Amputation while Traveling”), with the wording: “Hands are not to be amputated while traveling.” Al-Albānī authenticated the hadith in *Sahīh al-Jāmi al-Saghīr*, 6/168. Ahmad also narrated it in his *Musnad* (al-Halabī ed.), 4/181. *Dhakhā'ir al-Mawārīth* states that it was narrated in *Sunan al-Tirmidhī*, in the Book of Legal Punishments, and in *Sunan al-Nasā'ī*, in the Book of Amputating the Thief’s Hand. At the location cited above in his *Musnad*, Ahmad narrated another hadith from Busr: “I heard the Messenger of Allah—may Allah bless him and grant him peace—supplicate: ‘O Allah, grant us a good outcome in all our affairs, and protect us from disgrace in this world and punishment in the Hereafter.’” In Busr’s biographical entry in *al-Isāba*, Ibn Hajar stated that this hadith was narrated in *Sahīh Ibn Hibbān*. Al-Nabhānī likewise mentioned this in *al-Fath al-Kabīr* and added that al-Hākim narrated it in *al-Mustadrak*.