(1) Manuscript (ʿ): “about created things”; manuscripts (N) and (M): “about the created being.” (2) “Entirely” is omitted from manuscripts (N) and (M). (3) The hadith is narrated from several Companions, including Abū Hurayra, Abū Saīd al-Khudrī, Abū al-Dardā, and Anas ibn Mālik. See al-Bukhārī, 6:189, “Book of the Virtues of the Quran,” chapter “The Virtue of ‘Say: He Is Allah, the One’”; 9:114–115, “Book of Tawhīd,” chapter “Reports Concerning the Prophet’s Call—may Allah bless him and grant him peace—to His Community to Affirm Allah’s Oneness, Blessed and Exalted”; Muslim, pp. 556–557, “Book of the Prayer of Travelers,” chapter “The Virtue of Reciting ‘Say: He Is Allah, the One’”; Sunan Abī Dāwūd, 2:97–98, “Book of Witr,” chapter on Surat al-Samad; Sunan al-Tirmidhī, 4:240, 243, “Book of the Virtues of the Quran,” chapters “Reports Concerning Surat al-Ikhlās” and “Reports Concerning Idhā Zulzilat”; Sunan Ibn Mājah, 2:1244, “Book of Etiquette,” chapter “The Reward of the Quran”; and al-Musnad, al-Maārif edition, 18:152–153. (4) Ibn Taymiyya wrote a book entitled The Response of the People of Knowledge and Faith Concerning the Meaning of “Say: He Is Allah, the One” Being Equivalent to One-Third of the Quran. It has been printed more than once, including by al-Khayriyya Press in 1325, and was republished in the Riyadh edition of Majmū al-Fatāwā, 17:5–213. (5) This is the book Tafsīr Sūrat al-Ikhlās. It was published twice in Cairo and subsequently in the Riyadh edition of Majmū al-Fatāwā, 17:214–503. (6) The passage in square brackets is omitted from manuscripts (N) and (M). (7) Manuscripts (N) and (M): “And tawhīd in will and action”; manuscript (ʿ): “As for tawhīd in will, worship, and action.”