(1) M reads: “He rewards the obedient.” B has only: “unjust.” Following this word is a passage absent from B, A, N, and M; the lacuna ends on p. 309. (2) I could not find this hadith transmitted on Khadīja’s authority. I did, however, find a similar report cited by al-Hāfiz Ibn Hajar in *Fath al-Bārī*, 3/196, in his commentary on the hadiths in the chapter “What Has Been Said Concerning the Children of the Polytheists.” He states: “It was narrated from ʿAbd al-Razzāq, through Abū Muʿādh, from al-Zuhrī, from ʿUrwa, from ʿĀʾisha, who said: Khadīja asked the Prophet—peace and blessings be upon him—about the children of the polytheists, and he replied, ‘They are with their fathers.’ She asked him again later, and he replied, ‘Allah knows best what they would have done.’ She then asked him after Islam had become firmly established, whereupon the verse was revealed: ‘No bearer of burdens shall bear another’s burden.’ He said, ‘They remain upon the *fitra* (primordial natural disposition),’ or he said, ‘They are in Paradise.’ Abū Muʿādh is Sulaymān ibn Arqam, and he is weak.” Ibn Abī Hātim discusses Sulaymān ibn Arqam in *al-Jarh wa-l-Taʿdīl*, vol. [0–9], part [0–9], pp. [0–9]00–101, and cites the assessments of the leading hadith authorities, all of whom judged him weak. Among them is Yahyā ibn Maʿīn’s statement: “Sulaymān ibn Arqam, Abū Muʿādh, is not worth a *fals* and amounts to nothing.” Another is the report of ʿAbd al-Rahmān: “I heard my father say: ‘Sulaymān ibn Arqam is an abandoned hadith narrator.’” Ibn Hajar also cites another hadith from ʿĀʾisha conveying the same meaning in *Fath al-Bārī*, 3/195: “Ahmad narrated from ʿĀʾisha: I asked the Messenger of Allah—peace and blessings be upon him—about the children of the Muslims. He replied, ‘They are in Paradise.’ I then asked about the children of the polytheists, and he replied, ‘They are in the Fire.’ I said, ‘O Messenger of Allah, they did not live long enough to perform deeds.’ He replied, ‘Your Lord knows best what they would have done. If you wished, I could let you hear their cries and weeping in the Fire.’” Ibn Hajar comments: “This hadith is extremely weak because its chain of transmission includes Abū ʿAqīl, the client of Buhayya, who is an abandoned narrator.” Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr cites the hadith with similar wording in *Tajrīd al-Tamhīd*, p. 322, and comments: “This Abū ʿAqīl, the associate of Buhayya, is not the sort of narrator whose reports are accepted as evidence by scholars of transmitted reports.” See also the biography of Abū ʿAqīl Yahyā ibn al-Mutawakkil in *al-Jarh wa-l-Taʿdīl*, vol. [0–9], part [0–9], pp. [0–9]89–190, and *Lisān al-Mīzān*, 6/767. I also found a portion of this hadith in *al-Musnad* (al-Halabī edition), 6/208. Its chain reads: from Abū ʿAqīl Yahyā ibn al-Mutawakkil, from Buhayya, from ʿĀʾisha.