(1) N reads: “Indeed, by Allah, I do not give to anyone”; M reads: “By Allah, I do not give to anyone.” (2) I have not found the hadith in this wording. A hadith to the same effect, narrated from Abū Hurayra—may Allah be pleased with him—appears in *al-Bukhārī*, 4:85 (Book of the Obligation of the One-Fifth, chapter “Indeed, One-Fifth Belongs to Allah and the Messenger”). See also *Fath al-Bārī*, 6:152–153; *al-Musnad* (al-Maʿārif ed.), 12:180 (no. 7193 M); and *Dar Taʿārud al-Aql wa-l-Naql*, 8:278. (3) B reads: “There is no *maʿsaba* in inheritance.” N and M read: “Nor shall they disobey him in what is right” (which is erroneous). A has an incompletely dotted form corresponding to “No fragmentation in inheritance,” with the dots omitted from the *tā* and *dād*. The correct reading is the one I have established in the text. (4) The hadith appears in *Sunan al-Bayhaqī*, 10:133, where it reads: “Abū Ubayd said: His words, ‘No estate is to be fragmented,’ mean that a person dies leaving property which, if divided among the heirs at the request of some of them, would cause harm to all or some of them. He is saying that it must therefore not be divided. *Taʿdiya* means separation and derives from dividing something into parts. Thus, ‘I divided the meat’ means that I separated it. Al-Zaʿfarānī said: Al-Shāfiʿī stated in his earlier view, ‘A hadith of this kind cannot serve as proof because it is weak. This is also the view of the jurists whom we met.’ The shaykh, al-Bayhaqī, said: ‘Its weakness is due only to the interruption in its chain, and this is the view of all.’” In al-Suyūtī’s *al-Jāmi al-Kabīr*, 1:896, it reads: “No fragmentation [sic] is to be imposed upon the heirs, except where the estate admits of division. Abū Ubayd in *al-Gharīb*; Q (al-Bayhaqī in his *Sunan*), from Abū Bakr ibn Muhammad ibn Amr ibn Hazm as a *mursal* report.” See also Ibn al-Athīr, *al-Nihāya fī Gharīb al-Hadīth*, 3:106, entry “ʿadā.”