^{page 281 note 1} For Parts I–III, see BSOAS, XVIII, 1, 1956, 9–31,Google Scholar XVIII, 2, 1956, 239–60, XIX, 1, 1957, 13–48.

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^{page 291 note 1} Mentioned once more (No. 113) with his father Abū'l-Ghanā'im.

^{page 291 note 2} See also No. 145.

^{page 291 note 3} This passage was added later by the author, as is evident from the handwriting, smaller in size and ending in the margin.

^{page 292 note 1} Abū'l-Muຓaffar Muḥammad b. Aḥmad al-Abīwardī; poet, historian, and genealogist ; became librarian of the Niຓāmīya in Baghdād after 498; died in Iṡfahan in 507; biographical notice devoted to him in Muntaຓam, IX, 176–7, and to his father (d. 425), ibid., VIII, 80–1. An extensive list of his works is given by Yāqūt in the excellent biography he devotes to him in Irshād (Cairo ed.), XVII (234–66), 235–6. See also GAL, I, 253, Suppl., I, 447–8.

^{page 292 note 2} See also Nos. 110 and 111.

^{page 292 note 3} Perhaps Abū Manṡūr ‘All b. Muḥammad al-Anbārī al-Wā‘iຓ (425–507); biographical notice in Dhail, I, 137–8.

^{page 292 note 4} Abū'1-Fatḥ Muḥammad b. ‘Ali al-Ḥulwānī (439–505); biography in Dhail, I, 131–2.

^{page 293 note 1} cf. Ibn aṡ-Ṣabbāgh in next paragraph.

^{page 293 note 2} cf. Muntaຓam, VIII, 284, Bidāya, XII, 98.

^{page 293 note 3} No other information found.

^{page 293 note 4} Abū'l-Ḥasan Aḥmad b. al-Muḥsin al-Wakīl (401–77); see Muntaຓam, VIII, 273, and the biographical notice, ibid., IX, 11–12. See also No. 141.

^{page 294 note 1} Ref. Nos. 110 and 111.

^{page 294 note 2} Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm b. ‘Alī al-Fīrūzābādī ash-Shīrāzī (393–476); see GAL, I, 387–8, Suppl., I, 669–70, and Muntaຓam, IX, 7–8.

^{page 294 note 3} cf. Abū Ṭāhir al-Madhārī (No. 65).

^{page 294 note 4} Ref. No. 83.

^{page 294 note 5} No other obituary found in the Ṭabaqāt. See also No. 149.

^{page 295 note 1} See also No. 150.

^{page 295 note 2} No other obituary found. See also No. 125.

^{page 295 note 3} Abū'l-Ḥusain al-Mubārak b. ‘Abd al-Jabbār aṡ-Ṣairafī, known by the name of Ibn aṭ-Ṭuyūrī (411–500); see biographical notices in Muntaຓam, IX, 154 (where the name is given as Abū'l-Ḥasan aṭ-Ṭuyūrī, known as Ibn al-Ḥammāmī, cf. ibid, VIII, 246, where the name is given as above), Shadharāt, III, 412, Kāmil, anno 500.

^{page 295 note 4} Abū'l-Qāsim ‘Abd aṡ-Ṣamad b. ‘Umar b. Muḥammad b. ad-Dīnawarī al-Wā‘iẓ (d. 397); biographical notices in Tārīkh Baghdād, XI, 43–4, Muntaຓam, VII, 235–6.

^{page 295 note 5} Perhaps Abū'l-Ḥasan b. al-Gharīq (BSOAS, XIX, 1, 1957, p. 38, n. 3Google Scholar).

^{page 296 note 1} Abū Ghālib Aḥmad b. al-Ḥasan b. al-Bannā' (445–527); biographical notice in Muntaຓam, X, 31 (the name as given by sources cited in ibid., n. 2, is incorrect and should be left to stand as given by Ibn al-Jauzī). Abū Ghālib is a son of the author of the Diary. The Dhail has no biographical notice for him, but cites him in the one devoted to his father (p. 42), and devotes one to his older brother, Abū Naṡr Muḥammad (pp. 142–3, see Diary, No. 73), and another to his younger brother Abū ‘Abd Allāh Yaḥyā (453–531, pp. 226–8). Abū Ghālib had Ibn al-Jauzī as one of his students in ḥadīth.

^{page 296 note 2} No other information found.

^{page 296 note 3} See Dozy, Supplément, s.v. and the play on Sūra XXVIII, 76.

^{page 297 note 1} cf. Taimīya, Ibn, Siyāsa Shar‘īya (Cairo, 1322), 2Google Scholar (translated by Henri Laoust as Le traité de droit public d'lbn Taimīya, 2). Ibn Taimīya begins his treatise with the prophetic tradition enjoining believers to give good advice to those who hold power. Several letters, such as the present one, were written by Ḥanbalites of the fifth/eleventh century to those who held power, further examples of which may be found in Ibn Rajab, Dhail, passim; cf. introduction by the editors, Henri Laoust and Sāmī Dahhān.

^{page 298 note 1} cf. Sūra LXXXVII, 19, and A. b. Ḥanbal, Musnad, IV, 107.

^{page 299 note 1} cf. Sūra XVII, 7.

^{page 299 note 2} cf. the title of the author's work, Risāla fī's-sukūt wa-luzūm al-buyūt, in the introduction, BSOAS, XVIII, 1, 1956, 21.Google Scholar

^{page 299 note 3} Sūra II, 156.

^{page 299 note 4} The future Caliph al-Muqtadī. See also No. 137 below.

^{page 299 note 5} No other obituary found.

^{page 299 note 6} No other obituary found.

^{page 300 note 1} cf. Abū Ṭāhir al-Madhārī, No. 65.

^{page 300 note 2} cf. Abū Bakr Muḥammad b. ‘Umar b. al-Ādamī (d. 465) ; biographical notice in Muntaຓam, VIII, 283.

^{page 300 note 3} i.e. Aḥmad b. Ḥanbal.

^{page 300 note 4} Abū Ṭalib al-Ḥusain b. Muḥammad b. ‘All az-Zainabī (d. 512); biographical notice in Muntaຓam, IX, 201, according to which Abū Ṭālib was Naqīb of the ‘Alids and the Hāshimites for some months, then resigned when faced with the problem of punishing a guilty Hāshimite (this was perhaps Ibn Sukkara al-Hāshimī, ibid., VIII, 190, anno 450, and BSOAS, XIX, 1, 1957, p. 31, n. 1),Google Scholar and was succeeded (in 450) by his brother Abū'l-Fawāris, as Naqīb of the Hāshimites.

^{page 300 note 5} i.e. the future Caliph al-Muqtadī; cf. Muntaຓam, VIII, 254.

^{page 301 note 1} Abū'l-Ḥasan Hibat Allāh b. ‘Abd Allāh b. as-Sībī (394–78); biography, Muntaຓam, IX, 25 ; cf. Kāmil, anno 478 ; was qāḍī of the Mu‘allā quarter, east side of Baghdād, and tutor of the future Caliph al-Muqtadī and of his sons. See the biography of Ibn as-Sībī's son, Abū'l- Faraj ‘Abd al-Wahhāb b. Hibat Allāh b. as-Sībī (417–504), who was also qāḍī and tutor, in Muntaຓam, IX, 167, and Ṭabaqāt ash-Shāfi‘ūya, IV, 269.

^{page 302 note 1} ‘Fulān’ here appears to be a reference to the author himself.

^{page 302 note 2} Ref. No. 136 above.

^{page 302 note 3} Ref. No. 141 above.

^{page 303 note 1} No other obituary found; cf. Muntaຓam, IX, 179, where Abū Bakr b. Makkā, known as Ibn Dūst (427–507) is mentioned; this may be the son.

^{page 303 note 2} Abū Ṭāhir al-Madhārī, No. 65 above.

^{page 303 note 3} No other obituary found.

^{page 303 note 4} Ref. No. 119 above.

^{page 303 note 5} No other obituary or information found.

^{page 303 note 6} No other obituaries found.