(1) A and B read: “inwardly and outwardly.” The phrase “inwardly and outwardly” is omitted from H, S, and R. (2) H, S, and R read: “Chapter Sixteen.” The word “Chapter” is omitted from N and M. (3) In K, p. [0–9] 08 (M). (4) K reads: “The fifth argument is that the Imāmīs did not adopt.” (5) The phrase “unlike others” is absent from K. (6) The reading “and al-Māwardī” occurs only in B. K reads: “and al-Mutawakkil,” while all the other manuscripts read: “al-Mubarrad.” Al-Mubarrad was Abū al-Abbās Muhammad ibn Yazīd ibn Abd al-Akthar al-Thumālī al-Azdī, an authority on language, literature, and grammar. He is not known to have been a leading jurist, particularly in Shāfiī jurisprudence. He was born in 210 AH and died in 286 AH (see al-Alām, 8/15). The readings found in the various manuscripts are therefore undoubtedly corrupt. As for the reading in K—namely, al-Mutawakkil—I have found no one by that name among the Shāfiī jurists. The reading selected by the editor of B, namely al-Māwardī, is possible, since he was one of the leading Shāfiī jurists. He was Abū al-Hasan Alī ibn Muhammad ibn Habīb al-Māwardī, born in 364 AH and deceased in 450 AH. He wrote al-Hāwī on Shāfiī jurisprudence, comprising more than twenty volumes, and was the preeminent judge of his age. He also wrote al-Ahkām al-Sultāniyya, which has been published. See his biography in Tabaqāt al-Shāfiiyya, 5/267–285, and al-Alām, 5/146–147. (7) K reads: “and they were both.” (8) S reads: “that as a distinguishing practice among…”