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^{page 241 note 1} cf. Yāfi‘í, Mir’āt, III, 84.

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^{page 245 note 1} Two or three words.

^{page 245 note 2} One or two words.

^{page 245 note 3} This word is repeated in the margin to show the position of the following verse which is also in the margin.

^{page 246 note 1} One word.

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^{page 248 note 1} Repetition.

^{page 248 note 2} Two words.

^{page 248 note 3} Four words.

^{page 248 note 4} Mentioned once again in No. 138.

^{page 248 note 5} See p. 250, n. 5.

^{page 248 note 6} Abū ‘Abd Allāh Muḥammad b. Jarada (d. 476); biographical notice in al-Jauzī,, Ibnal-Munlaຓam fī tārīkh al-mulūk wa'l-umam, IX, 9–10Google Scholar; wealthy Ḥanbalite merchant, son-in-law of Abū Manṡūr b. Yūsuf (see p. 254, n. 8), founder of Masjid Ibn Jarada (erroneously attributed to his son Abū Naṡr in Ibn al-Athīr, al-Kāmil fī't-tārīkh, anno 494) and of a school for girls (No. 96, second note); typographical error in his name: ‘Jarāda’, in Kathīr, Ibn, al-Bidāya wa'n-nihāya fī't-tārīkh, XII, 125,Google Scholar reproduced in Ibn al-Athīr, Kāmil (Cairo ed.), VIII, 124, n. 1. See also Nos. 19, 22, 25, 35, 63, 66, 67, 74, 76, 77, 80, 81, 83, 85, 88, 96, 103, 104, 106, 121, 139, 141, 152, and 175.

^{page 249 note 1} cf. Kāmil, anno 459: al-‘Amid Abū Sa'd. See also Nos. 9, 83, 85.

^{page 249 note 2} This title is used by the author to designate the Caliph al-Qā'im (422–67), not the Sultan Alp Arslān to whom he refers by the title of ‘al-Malik’ (cf. No. 6 below). For al-Qā'im, under this title, see Nos. 63, 76, 83, 85, 93, 115, 165, and 183; see also, for this Caliph, Nos. 18, 57, 62, 64, 68, 83, 87, 99, 102, 109, 110, 116, 124, 128, 130, 137, 141, 142, 147, 148, 152, and 159.

^{page 249 note 3} In Muntaຓam, VIII, 238, Ibn al-Jauzī reports the death of the Ḥājib Abū Manṡūr b. Bakrān in A.H. 457, and the succession of the Ḥājib Abū ‘Abd Allāh al-Husain b. ‘Alī al-Mardūsī (?) (d. 478), biographical notice of latter, ibid., IX, 17–18. The author of the Diary refers several times to this term of ‘Ḥājib’ (chamberlain): see Nos. 21,40, 41, 140, 147, 153, and 181; for al-Mardūsī, see No. 144; for the Ḥājib as-Sulaimānī or as-Sulaimānī (two variants of the Diary, cf. Muntaຓam, VIII, 284:as-Sulaimānī ), see Nos. 117, 126, 154, 172; cf. Ibn as-Sulaimīnī (?), No. 57; see also al-Ḥājib Nāṡir, No. 21.

^{page 249 note 4} Abū Bakr Aḥmad b. Muḥammad al-Fūrakī (408–78); biography in Subkī, , Ṭabaqāt ash-Shāfi'īya, III, 32; see also Muntaຓam, IX, 17; grandson of the Ash'arite theologian Abū Bakr b. Fūrak (d. 406; GAL, I, 166, Suppl., I, 277–8); both were known by the name of Ibn Fūrak, cf. MuntaຓamGoogle Scholar, VIII, 204. See also Nos. 10 and 142.

^{page 249 note 5} This title is used by the author to designate the Saljūqid Sultan Alp Arslān (455–65) whose name he writes as follows: in Combe, Sauvaget, Wiet, Répertoire chronologique d'épigraphie arabe, VII, Nos. 2773, 2780, 2792, 2798; but in No. 2661. For other references to Alp Arslan, see below, Nos. 9, 19, 41, and 83.

^{page 249 note 6} See introduction for rô1e played by dreams in the Diary. These dreams may be found under Nos. 7 (two dreams), 30, 42, 53, 54, 69 (two dreams), 72 (two dreams), 73, 74, 77 (cf. No. 74), 79 (three dreams), 107, 128, 161, 174, 176, 180, 182 (cf. No. 174).

^{page 249 note 7} Malikshāh and Iyāz, most probably; cf. Bundārī, Zubdat an-nuṡra (Recueils de Textes relatifs à l'Histoire des Seldjoukides, Vol. II), 47, and Zambaur, Manuel de généalogie et de chronologie pour Vhistoire de l'Islam, map R.

^{page 250 note 1} See also No. 147; cf. ‘Abd al-Karīm b. al-Bauwāb, No. 165.

^{page 250 note 2} cf. Nos. 65 and 78.

^{page 250 note 3} Abū'l-Qāsim ‘Abd Allāh b. Aĥmad b. Riḍwān (d. 474); brief biographical notice in Muntaຒam, VIII, 333; wealthy Ḥanbalite merchant, son-in-law of Abū Manṡur b. Yūsuf (see p. 254, n. 8); supervisor of the Māristān reconstructed, aggrandized, furnished, and endowed by his father-in-law (cf. Muntaḥam, VIII, 248, 251); highly regarded by the Caliph al-Qā'im; fatherin-law of Niຓam al-Mulk's son, Mu'aiyad al-Mulk (ibid, 287; Wazīr in 486 and 487). For Ibn Riḍwan, see also Nos. 8, 22, 63, 65, 66, 68, 76, 80, 88, 97, 98, 100, 102, 103, 106, 114, 116, 120, 134, 145, 147, 154, 155, and 180.

^{page 250 note 4} Abū'l-Ghanā'im al-Mu'ammar b. Muḥammad b. ‘Ubaid Allāh al-'Alawī (418 [?]–490); Naqīb from 456 to 490, cf. Massignon, ‘Cadis et naqībs baghdadiens' in WZKM, LI, 1948, 113; biographical notice in Muntaຓam, ix, 104–5 (where the kunya Abū'l-Qāsim should be amended; cf. ibid, VIII, 236, Ibn al-Athīr, Kāmil, anno 490, Ibn Kathūr, al-Bidāya, XII, 155).

^{page 250 note 5} This report, dated Jumādā I, and the previous one (see p. 248–9), dated the 24th of Rajab, may be found mentioned in several historical works, combined into one report dated the month of Jumādā I, or without mention of any month. None which I have seen mentions the month of Rajab. The following sources, all subsequent in date to the Diary, are those which I have come across: al-‘Aຓīmī, ed. Cahen, in JA, ccxxx, 1938, 358; Ibn al–Jauzī, Muntaຓam, VIII, 248, and Shudhūr al-‘uqūd, two MSS in Dār al-Kutub, Cairo, Tārīkh no. 994, 139–40 (anno 462 [sic]) and Tārīkh no. 95 mīm, fol. 125a (anno 453 [sic]); Bundārī, Zubdat an-nuṡra, ed. Houtsma (Recueil de Textes relatifs à l'Histoire des Seldjoukides, Vol. II), 34; Ibn al-Athīr, Kāmil, anno 460 (according to Muntaຓam); Sibṭ Ibn al-Jauzī, Mir'āt az-zamān, MS Ar. Paris 1506, photo-reproductions in Dār al-Kutub, Cairo, Tārīkh 551, fol.lll a-b; Dhahabā, Duwal al-lslām, I, 208 (according to Kāmil); Yāfi'ī, Mir'āt al-janān, III, 84 (according to Kāmil); Ibn Kathūr, Bidāya, XII, 96 (according to Muntaຓam); ‘Aibī, ‘Iqd al-jumīn, MS in Dār al-Kutub, Cairo, Tārīkh 1584, 244–5 (according to Mir'āt az-zamān); Ibn al-‘Imād al-Ḥanbalī, Shadharāt adh-Dhahab, III, 308 (anno 460, according to Muntaຓam), and 309 (anno 462 [sic], according to Shudhūr al-'uqūd).

^{page 251 note 1} cf. parallel passages in Mir'āt az-zamān, fol. 111b: The word would be better changed to (the prostitutes), which would be more in conformity to the meaning of in the text of Mir'āt az-zamān. The text of ‘Iqd al-jumān is also defective:

^{page 251 note 2} Abū Naṡr Muḥammad b. Aḥmad, known by the name of Ibn Jamīla, cf. ‘Imad ad-dīn al-Iṡfahānī, Zubdat an-nuṡra, 34.

^{page 251 note 3} Abū Ya'lā Muḥammad b. al-Ḥusain b. al-Farrā' (380–458), teacher of the author of the Diary; lengthy biography by his son Ya'lā, Abū'l-Ḥusain b. Abī, Tabaqāt al-Ḥanāabila (ed. al-Fiqī, M. Ḥāmid), II, 193–230Google Scholar. Generally referred to as al-Qāḍī Abū Ya'lā, cf. Henri Laoust, Essai sur les doctrines sociales et politiques d'lbn Taimīya, 15, n. 1. See also No. 82.

^{page 252 note 1} The author wrote this date in the margin.

^{page 252 note 2} cf. Abī Muḥammad Ismā'īl b. Aḥmad al-Hamadhānī (d. 489) and his brother Abū Ya'lā, in Rajab, Ibn, Dhail ‘alā Tabaqāt al-Ḥanābila (ed. Dahhan, Henri Laoust—Sāmī), I, 110–11.Google Scholar

^{page 252 note 3} cf. in No. 72, below.

^{page 252 note 4} For this nisba, see Sam'ānī, Ansāb, fol. 502b.

^{page 252 note 5} Not mentioned in the available Tabaqat—works on the Hanbalites. See also No. 40.

^{page 252 note 6} Abū'1–Wafā' ‘Alī b. ‘Aqīl (431–513), renowned Ḥanbalite doctor; see GAL, I, 398, Suppl., I, 687; very good biography in Ibn Rajab, Dhail, I, 171 ff.; see also Goldziher, , ‘Geschichte der hanbalitische Bewegungen’ in ZDMO, LXII, 1908, 17–21Google Scholar; Massignon, La Passion d'al-Hallāj, 366–7, Recueil de textes inédits, 91–2, and ‘Ētudes sur les isnāds’ in Mélanges Graf, I, 391. See also Nos. 16, 44, 76, 79, 80, 82, and 89.

^{page 252 note 7} Abū'l-Qāsim ‘Abd aṡ-Samad b. ‘Alī b. al-Badan (d. 493); biographical notice in Muntaຓam, ix, 116–17. See also Nos. 99 and 103. His son, Abū'l-Ma'ālī ‘Abd al–Khāliq (452–538, ibid, X, 109), also known as Ibn al–Badan, was a teacher of Ibn al-Jauzī.

^{page 252 note 8} Abū Ṭahir Aḥmad b. ‘Alī ad-Daqqāq an-Nāsikh (d. 470); Ansāb, fol. 551a. See also No. 103, where he is again mentioned with Ibn al-Badan.

^{page 252 note 9} Abū'l-Fawāris Ṭarrād b. Muḥammad b. ‘Alī az-Zainabī (398–491); Naqīb of the Hāshimites from 450 to 491, cf. Massignon, Cadis-Naqībs, 112. See also Nos. 76, 83, 90, 97, 98, 99, 109, 134, 136, and 142.

^{page 252 note 10} See also No. 76.

^{page 253 note 1} Abū Ja‘far ‘Abd al-Khāliq b. Abī Mūsā al-Hāshimī (411–70); see GAL, Suppl., I, 687; Goldziher, op. cit., 9, 18; Massignon, La Passion d'al-Hallāj, 366, and a very good biography in Dhail, I, 20 ff. See also Nos. 43, 66, 76, 83, 85, 89, 90, 91, 94, 97, 98, 99, 102, 103, 106, 108, 109, 111, 116, 124, 125, and 162.

^{page 253 note 2} Abū'1-Wafā' Ṭāhir b. al-Ḥusain b. al-Qauwās (390–476); biographical notice in Dhail, I, 49–53. See also Nos. 85 and 95.

^{page 253 note 3} Al-Qāḍī Abū ‘All Ya'qub b. Ibrāhīm al-‘Ukbarī al-Barzabīnī (409–86); qāḍ;ī of the Bāb al-Azaj quarter; biographical notice in Dhail, I, 92–5. See also Nos. 115, 124, and 158.

^{page 253 note 4} Abū ‘Abd Allāh Muḥammad b. ‘Alī ad-Dāmaghānī (398–78); chief qāḍī in Baghdād from 447 to his death; Ḥanafite-Ash'arite, cf. Massignon, Cadis-Naqībs, 110; see GAL, I, 373, Suppl., I, 637, and biography in Muntaຓam, ix, 22–4. See also Nos. 116, 141, 142, 151, and 183.

^{page 253 note 5} Abū'1-Faḍl Muḥammad b. ‘Alī b. ‘Āmir al-Wakīl (d. 472; full name, ibid, VIII, 59), brief biographical notice, ibid, 326; served as financial agent under the two Caliphs al-Qā'im (422–67) and al-Muqtadī (467–87); mentioned in Dhail, I, 24, and n. 2. See also Nos. 55, 63, 88, 116, and 137.

^{page 254 note 1} Fakhr ad-Daula Abū Naṡr Muḥammad b. Muhammad b. Jahīr (398–483); biographical notice in Kāmil, anno 483; another notice on him (and on his son ‘Amīd ad-Daula) in Shadharāt, III, 369–71, where the date of birth is given as 393. Sibṭ Ibn al-Jauzi, in his Mir'āt az-zamān, MS Ar. Paris 1506, fol. lllb-112a and b, gives a detailed account of the dismissal of Ibn Jahīr, containing the decision of the Caliph al-Qā'im enumerating the causes which brought about the dismissal. Sibṭt also includes Ibn Jahīr's own defence. This long passage constitutes an interesting document on political life in the Caliph's Palace, between tḤe Caliph and his Wazīr. The Caliph intended to replace Ibn Jahīr but none of the three candidates the Caliph had in mind succeeded in being appointed Wazīr. Ibn Jahīr was then reinstated by the Caliph. See also Nos. 23, 48, 53, 55, 64, 83, 85, 109, and 116.

^{page 254 note 2} cf. Makdisi, George, ‘Notes on Ḥilla and the Mazyadids in medieval Islam’, JAOS, LXXIV, 1954, 249–62.Google Scholar

^{page 254 note 3} See also Nos. 25 and 81.

^{page 254 note 4} Epithet of Nizām al-Mulk, great Saljūqid Wazīr from 456 to his assassination in 485; cf. Dhail, I, 26, n. 6.

^{page 254 note 5} Surkhāb b. Badr b. Muhalhal b. Kāmrāwā, Dailamite notable, cf. Zubdat an-nuṡra, 19–20, 25.

^{page 254 note 6} Governor of Janza, in the province of Arrān (see Janzah in Le Strange, Lands of the Eastern Caliphate, 178, and map III, on road between Bardhaah and Tiflis), cf. āKāmil, anno 446.

^{page 254 note 7} Ibn al–Jazarī (Ṭabaqāt al-Qurrā’) does not mention this name under the kunā nor under the abnā'. Mentioned again in Nos. 82 and 148.

^{page 254 note 8} Ash-Shaikh al-Ajall Abū Manṡūr ‘Abd al-Malik b. Muḥammad b. Yūsuf (395–60); very good biographies in al-Khaṭib al-Baghdādī, Tārīkh Baghdād, X, 434; Muntaຓam, VIII, 250–2; Bundārī, Zubdat an-nusra, 20–3 and 33; wealthy ฤanbalite merchant, father-in-law of Ibn Jarada (see p. 248, n. 6) and of Ibn Riḍwān (p. 250, n. 3); generous benefactor and close friend of the Caliph al-Qā'im, cf. Massignon, ‘Études sur les isnāds’ in Mélanges Grat, I, 391. See also Nos. 29, 45, 63, 65, 74, 82, 88, 99, 101, 128, 174, 180, and 182. For his two sons, see No. 25; with regard to their inheritance, see Nos. 88 and 174, and cf. Muntaຓam, VIII, 252.

^{page 255 note 1} Abū Shujā' Muḥammad b. Ḥusain ar-Rūdhrāwarī (437–88); Wazīr of the Caliph al-Muqtadī (467–87), another of several works, including a continuation of Ibn Miskawaih's īTajārib al-umam (GAL, Suppl., I, 582); biographical notice in Muntaຓam, ix, 90–4, and in Kāmil, anno 488. See also No. 116.

^{page 255 note 2} Abū Ya'lā al-Ḥusain, who, according to the text, must have died on Thursday, 10 Dhū'l-Qa‘da, two days after the Wazīr Ibn Jahīr was dismissed by the Caliph al-Qā’im, without having become the latter's Wazīr; Zambaur, Manuel, 8, 1. 25, should be amended accordingly.

^{page 255 note 3} Sharīf Abū Aḥmad is probably the first cousin of Sharīf Abū Ja'far (p. 253, n. 1); a biography, without mention of kunya, in Muntaຓam, VIII, 299, gives the name: Muḥammad b. ‘Alī b. Muḥammad b. al-Qāḍī Abī ‘Alī al-Hāshimī (d. 468); Naqīb of the Hāshimites in Baghdād for a brief span of time, perhaps in 453 replacing Abū'l-Fawāris (p. 252, n. 9), cf. ibid., VIII, 299, and 222, lines 6–7.

^{page 255 note 4} Two sons of Abū Manṡūr b. Yūsuf (p. 254, n. 8): Abū Muḥammad al-Ḥasan, cf. Muntaຓam, VIII, 251; see also Nos. 29 and 30; and Abū'l-Ḥasan, mentioned with his son Abū'1-Fath, No. 45. See also No. 121.

^{page 255 note 5} Abū Muḥammad ‘Abd Allāh al-Baradānī (d. 461); biographical notice, based on the Diary, in Dhail, I, 11. See also Nos. 63, 66, and 67.

^{page 255 note 6} Abū Ṭāhir ‘Abd al-'Azīz b. Ṭāhir aṡ-Saḥrāwī (d. 481); biography in Muntaຓam, ix, 45.

^{page 255 note 7} No other obituary found in the Ṭabaqāt works on the Ḥanbalites.

^{page 256 note 1} For ash-Sha‘īrī, cf. Ansāb, fol. 335b: Abū Ṭāhir ‘Abd al-Karīm b. al-Ḥasan ash-Sha‘īr (391–69), and Abū'l-Qāsim ‘Umar b. ‘Abd al-Malik ash-Sha'īrī (406–71); cf. the variants in these two names in īMuntaຓam, VIII, 310 and 322. See Masjid Ibn ash-Sha'īrī, No. 103, n. 1. For Thābit, see also Nos. 154, 158, 161, 174.

^{page 256 note 2} Abū Bakr ‘Abd al-'Azīz b. Ja'far Ghulām al-Khallāl (285–363); biography in Ibn Abī Ya'lā, Ṭabaqāt al-Ḥanābila, II, 119–27. See also No. 158.

^{page 256 note 3} Ref. p. 250, n. 5, above.

^{page 256 note 4} See also Nos. 69 and 178.

^{page 258 note 1} The author is referring to Masjid Ibn Jarada. This Ḥanbalite merchant also founded a school for girls and appointed Abū Ṭālib al-'Ukbarī (d. 461) as teacher (see No. 96).

^{page 258 note 2} No other obituary in the Tabaqāt works on the Ḥanbalites.

^{page 258 note 3} Abū Ṭāhir Muḥammad b. Aḥmad b. Muḥammad al-Ghubārī al-Ḥanbalī (352–432); teacher of the author of the Diary in fiqh, see Dhail, 1, 42 brief biographical notice in Ṭabaqāt al-Ḥanābila, II, 188.

^{page 259 note 1} Abū ‘Abd Allāh MuḤammad b. al-Mahdī al-Hāshimī (d. 471); biographical notice in Muntaຓam, VIII, 322.

^{page 259 note 2} Abū'l-Ḥasan ‘Alī b. al-Husain b. ‘Abd ar-Raḥīm (d. 466); brief biographical notices in Bundārī, Zubdat an-nuṡra, 50; Muntaຓam, VIII, 288; Kāmil, anno 466, wherein all three historians differ: (a) as to the honorific title (Za'īm al-Mulk and Za'īm ad-Daula), (b) as to age (70 and 90), and (c) as to the place of death (Nīl and Ḥilla). See also Nos. 48 and 55.

^{page 259 note 3} cf. Zubdat an-nuṡra, 35, 50, and Muntaຓam, VIII, 252.

^{page 259 note 4} cf. Tāj al-Mulūk Hazārasb b. Bankīr b. ‘Iyād, died in Iṡfahān in 462; brother-in-law of the Sultan Alp Arslān; see biographical notice in Zubdat an-nuṡra, 36–7, cf. Kāmil, anno 462.

^{page 259 note 5} Abū'l-Barakāt Muḥammad b. ‘Abd Allāh b. Yaḥya al-Baghdādī al-Karajī ash-Shīrajī ash-Shafi'ī (406–99); see biographical notices in Muntaຓam, ix, 147, and Ibn al-Jazarī, Tabaqāt al-Qurrā', II, 187–8; in the latter source, the date of birth is given as 560, an evident mistake; Ibn al-Jauzī writes that he was known as Ibn ash-Shīrajī. See also No. 103.

^{page 259 note 6} Died in 460; see biographical notice, No. 15, above.

^{page 260 note 1} Abū'l-Qāsim ‘Abd al-Wāhid b. ‘Alī b. Burhān (before 376–456); biographical notice in Muntaຓam, VIII, 236–7, with reference to his Murji'ite-Mu'tazilite doctrines by Ibn ‘Aqīl who was his student in grammar.

^{page 260 note 2} Abū'l-Qāsim b. at-Tabbān, Mu'tazilite teacher of Ibn ‘Aqīl in dogmatic theology; cf. Dhail, I, 172, and n. 6 (the author of the Diary writes clearly ‘Ibn at-Tabbān’).

^{page 260 note 3} cf. the interesting passage in the biographical notice devoted to Ibn ‘Aqīl by Sibt b. al-Ğauzī, Mir'āt az-zamān, MS Ar. Paris 1506, fol. 139a: …… (as Ibn ‘Aqīl's own doctrine).

^{page 260 note 4} cf. Abū Sa'īd al-Ḥasan b. Muḥammad al-Kutubī (375–451), in Muntaຓam, VIII, 212.

^{page 260 note 5} cf. No. 18 above.

^{page 260 note 6} Abū'l-Ḥasan Muḥammad b. Aḥmad al-Baradānī (388, according to others, 378–469); biographical notice in Dhail, I, 18–20; see Muntaຓam, VIII, 311, where the date of birth, 308, a copyist's error, should be amended.