(1) Immediately following the preceding discussion in *al-Maqālāt*, 1/107. (2) A and B read: “among the Rāfidah.” (3) Abū Ja‘far ibn Alī ibn al-Nu‘mān ibn Abī Tarīfah al-Bajalī al-Kūfī al-Ahwal was known as Shaytān al-Tāq, while the Shī‘ah call him Mu’min al-Tāq. Al-Najāshī said: “He transmitted reports from Alī ibn al-Husayn, Abū Ja‘far al-Bāqir, and Abū Abd Allah Ja‘far al-Sādiq—peace be upon them. His shop was in Tāq al-Mahāmil in Kufa. People would consult him about the appraisal of coins, and his assessments would prove to be exactly as he had stated; hence he was called Shaytān al-Tāq.” Al-Najāshī and others acknowledge that he upheld *al-raj‘ah* (the doctrine of return). He died around 160 AH. On him and his doctrine, see al-Najāshī, *al-Rijāl*, pp. [0–9]49–250; al-Nawbakhtī, *Firaq al-Shī‘ah*, p. 100; al-Maqrīzī, *al-Khitat*, 2/348, 353; *Lisān al-Mīzān*, 5/300–301; *al-Milal wa-al-Nihal*, 1/166–168; *A‘yān al-Shī‘ah*, 46/162; al-Tūsī, *al-Fihrist*, pp. [0–9]57–158; *Rijāl al-Tūsī*, pp. [0–9]02–303, 359–360; Ibn Shahrāshūb, *Ma‘ālim al-‘Ulamā’* (Najaf ed., 1380/1961), p. [0–9]5; Ibn al-Nadīm, *al-Fihrist*, p. [0–9]76; al-Kashshī, *al-Rijāl*, pp. [0–9]22–126; and al-Ziriklī, *al-A‘lām*, 7/154. (4) N and M read: “but.” (5) N and M read: “wills them and determines them.” (6) The reading *wa-yushayyi’uhu* (and constitutes it as a thing) appears in A and B. N and M read *yunshi’uhu* (brings it into being), while *al-Maqālāt* reads *yuthbituhu* (establishes it). See the Ritter edition, 1/37, n. 10.