(1) N and M read the singular form: “says.” (2) N alone reads: “was established by revelation.” (3) N and M read: “the majority.” (4) N and M read: “the fifth,” which is an error. The discussion of the fifth aspect began on p. 102. (5) “All” is omitted in N alone. (6) N alone reads *ahad* (“One”). (7) “Early” is omitted in N alone. (8) M alone reads: “and Yūsuf,” which is an error. (9) N and M read: “and Zurārah ibn Abī A'yan,” which is an error. Zurārah ibn A'yan ibn Sinsin was the leader of the Zurāriyyah, one of the Rāfidī sects. His father was a Byzantine slave belonging to a man of Banū Shaybān, and his grandfather was a monk. Ibn al-Nadīm states in *al-Fihrist*, p. 220: “Zurārah was a byname; his personal name was Abd Rabbih . . . He was the foremost of the Shi'ah in jurisprudence, hadith, knowledge of *kalām*, and Shi'ism.” Zurārah died in 150 AH. It is said that he initially upheld the imamate of Abd Allāh ibn Ja'far, but later recognized Mūsā ibn Ja'far (al-Kāzim) as imam. Shortly, Ibn Taymiyyah will cite a Zurāriyyah doctrine concerning the fundamentals of religion, transmitted from al-Ash'arī’s *Maqālāt*. For Zurārah, see *Rijāl al-Najāshī*, pp. 132–133; *Rijāl al-Tūsī*, pp. 123–124, 201, 350; al-Tūsī, *al-Fihrist*, p. 100; *Rijāl al-Kashshī*, pp. 88–107; Ibn al-Athīr, *al-Lubāb*, 1/498; *Lisān al-Mīzān*, 2/473–474; al-Ziriklī, *al-A'lām*, 3/75. On the Zurāriyyah, see *Maqālāt al-Islāmiyyīn*, 1/100, 106–107; *al-Farq bayna al-Firaq*, p. 43; al-Maqrīzī, *al-Khitat*, 2/353; and *al-Milal wa-l-Nihal*, 1/150.