(1) The two verses appear in *al-Maqālāt* and *al-Farq bayna al-Firaq* at the two locations cited above. Ibn Tāhir al-Baghdādī attributed them to Ishāq ibn Suwayd al-ʿAdawī, a trustworthy hadith transmitter who narrated from Yahyā ibn Yaʿmar and died in 131 AH. See his biography in *Tabaqāt Ibn Saʿd*, 7/243, and *Tahdhīb al-Tahdhīb*, 1/226. Al-Mubarrad, however, cited these two verses together with two others following them in *al-Kāmil*, 2/123 (Commercial Press ed., 1365 AH), on the authority of al-Asmaʿī, but rejected their attribution to Ishāq ibn Suwayd al-ʿAdawī. (2) (ʿA) reads: “mentioned it.” (3) (N) and (M) read: “They introduced that,” which is a corruption. (4) (B) and (A) read: “the Nusayriyya.” The Nusayriyya were discussed previously at 1/12. See also Muhibb al-Dīn al-Khatīb’s annotation in *al-Muntaqā min Minhāj al-Iʿtidāl*, pp. 97–99, 101. (5) (B) and (A) read: *sharaʿa* (he began); (N) and (M): *shiʿr* (poetry). (6) The words “those who say” appear only in (ʿA). (7) (N) reads: *al-amraʿ*, which is a corruption. (8) The passage between the two (8) markers appears in (ʿA), (N), and (M). (A) reads: “… the large-bellied; to him, none but Salmān.” (B) reads: “the large-bellied. I bear witness that there is no god but Salmān …,” etc. (9) Shihāb al-Dīn Ahmad ibn Mahmūd ibn Murrī al-Shāfiʿī cited these verses in his request for a fatwa from Ibn Taymiyya concerning the Nusayriyya, stating that they were recited by one of the foremost Nusayrī leaders in 700 AH. See *Risālat al-Radd ʿalā al-Nusayriyya*, p. [0–9] 5, in *Majmūʿ al-Rasāʾil*, published by al-Khānjī, 1323 AH. Muhibb al-Dīn al-Khatīb drew my attention to this in his annotation on *al-Muntaqā*, p. [0–9] 02.