(1) H and B read: *mā* (“did not”). (2) This is part of a hadith narrated by Abū Bakra—may Allah be pleased with him. Its full wording appears in *Sahīh al-Bukhārī*, vol. 6, p. 8 (*Kitāb al-Bukhārī*, chapter “The Prophet’s Letter to Chosroes and Caesar”). Abū Bakra said: “Allah benefited me, during the Battle of the Camel, through a statement I had heard from the Messenger of Allah—may Allah bless him and grant him peace—after I had nearly joined the people of the Camel and fought alongside them. When the Messenger of Allah—may Allah bless him and grant him peace—learned that the Persians had appointed the daughter of Chosroes to rule over them, he said: ‘A people who entrust their affairs to a woman will never prosper.’” An abbreviated version appears in *Sahīh al-Bukhārī*, vol. 9, p. 55 (Book of Tribulations, chapter “Uthmān ibn al-Haytham narrated to us…”). The hadith also appears in *Sunan al-Tirmidhī*, vol. 3, p. 360 (Book of Tribulations, chapter 60, “Mūsā ibn Abd al-Rahmān al-Kindī narrated to us…”), and *Sunan al-Nasā’ī*, vol. 8, p. 200 (Book of Judicial Conduct, chapter “The Prohibition on Appointing Women”). It also appears in *al-Musnad* (al-Halabī ed.), with such variations in wording as *tamlikuhum imra’a* (“a woman rules them”) and *asnadū…* (“they entrusted…”). See vol. 5, pp. 38, 43, 47, 50, and 51. (3) In his book *al-Shīa wa-Ahl al-Bayt* (*The Shia and the Prophet’s Household*), Ihsān Ilāhī Zahīr mentions that some Shia maintain that Fātima—may Allah be pleased with her—accepted what Abū Bakr al-Siddīq—may Allah be pleased with him—had done. He writes (pp. 84–85, Pakistan ed., 1403/1983): “Indeed, some Shii reports even state that she accepted this. Ibn Maytham relates in his *Sharh Nahj al-Balāgha* (*Commentary on Nahj al-Balāgha*): ‘Abū Bakr said to her: You are entitled to what your father was entitled to. The Messenger of Allah—may Allah bless him and his family and grant them peace—used to take your maintenance from Fadak, distribute the remainder, and use part of it in Allah’s cause. I am bound before Allah to administer it as he did. She accepted this and obtained his pledge to that effect.’” (*Sharh Nahj al-Balāgha* by Ibn Maytham al-Bahrānī, vol. [0–9], p. 107, Tehran ed.). Al-Dunbulī likewise mentions this in his commentary *al-Durra al-Najafiyya* (*The Najaf Pearl*), pp. 331–332 (Iran ed.). See also *al-Shīa wa-Ahl al-Bayt*, pp. 84–92.