(1) F reads: “Fihr ibn Mālik only.” (2) N and M read: “the majority of Ahl al-Sunna and the Murji'a.” (3) “Ibn Abd al-Muttalib” is omitted from N and M. (4) F reads: “and this is the position of the Rāwandiyya.” (5) “The caliphate” is omitted from N and M. (6) N and M read: “Alī ibn Abī Tālib—may Allah be pleased with him.” (7) “The caliphate” is omitted from N and M. (8) N and M read: “Jafar ibn Abī Tālib—may Allah be pleased with him.” (9) F reads: *thumma qusūruhā* (“then its shortcomings”), which is a corruption. (10) The passage between the two asterisks is omitted from A and B. A biographical notice on Abd Allāh ibn Muāwiya ibn Abd Allāh ibn Jafar ibn Abī Tālib appears in *Lisān al-Mīzān*, 3/363–365. It states (p. 364): “Abū Nuaym said in his *Tārīkh*: During the reign of Marwān ibn Muhammad, he arrived in al-Madāin and seized control of it; Abū Jafar al-Mansūr was with him. He remained there from 128 AH through the end of 129 AH. He then fled to Khurāsān, where Abū Muslim imprisoned him until he died in prison in 131 AH.” Ibn Hajar then cited Ibn Hazm as saying: “Abd Allāh ibn Muāwiya was corrupt in religion, a *muattil* (denialist), and associated with the *Dahriyya* (materialists).”