(1) N and M read: “to Uthmān.” The hadith appears in two places in *Fadā'il al-Sahāba*, 1/481 (no. 782) and 1/508–509 (no. 831). The first is narrated from 'Abd Allāh ibn al-Hasan, who said: “It reached me that the Messenger of Allah—may Allah bless him and grant him peace—said: ‘Is there no father, guardian, or brother of an unmarried woman who will give her in marriage to Uthmān? Had I had a third, I would have given her in marriage to him. I married my daughter to him only in accordance with revelation from heaven.’” The editor states: “It is weak because its chain is interrupted and because of al-Hasan’s narrators.” He adds that Ibn Abī 'Āsim related it in *al-Sunna*, and that al-Haythamī cited it in *Majma' al-Zawā'id*, 9/83. Regarding the second hadith, the editor states: “Its chain of transmission is weak because it is *mursal*.” (2) The word *annahum* (“that they”) is omitted from A and B. (3) A and B read *li-kawnihim* (“because of their being”); all other manuscripts read *li-kawnihi* (“because of its being”). (4) N, M, W, R, H, and S read: “a believer and a hypocrite.” (5) A, B, and M read *fīhā* (“in it,” with a feminine referent). (6) The words “but merely widened it” are omitted from N and M. After giving his chain of transmission, Ibn 'Asākir states in *Tārīkh Madīnat Dimashq*, vol. 2, q [0–9], p. 145 (al-Majma' al-'Ilmī al-'Arabī, Damascus, 1373/1954): “…from my grandfather Zufar, who said: I asked Makhūl about Yazīd’s Canal and how it came about. He replied: ‘You have asked someone well informed. A trustworthy person told me that it had been a small Nabataean canal with a slight flow, irrigating two estates belonging to a clan called Banū Fawqā. No one besides them had any share in it. They died during Mu'āwiya’s caliphate without leaving an heir, so Mu'āwiya took possession of their estates and property. When Mu'āwiya died in Rajab of the year 60 and his son Yazīd assumed power, Yazīd examined a vast tract of land that had no water. He was skilled in engineering, and when he inspected the canal, he found it small and ordered that it be excavated. The people of al-Ghūta prevented him and opposed the project. He placated them by undertaking to pay their *kharāj* (land tax) for that year from his own funds, and they agreed. He then had a canal excavated six handspans wide and six handspans deep, running full to its banks. He honored the condition he had agreed with them. This is the story of Yazīd’s Canal.’”