^{page 420 note 1} The article (minus the final ḥadīth) is reproduced by Ibn Qāḍī Shuhba, al-I‘lām bi-Ta’īkh al-Islām (MS Oxford 721, s.a. 694). Both the MSS of al-Dhahabī and Ibn Qāḍī Shuhba contain some textual errors, but they mutually correct each other. The article in Ibn al-‘Imād, Shadharāt al-dhahab, s.a. 694, seems also to be but an abbreviation of that of al-Dhahabī. (I owe the reference in Ibn al-‘Imād, which has originally enabled me to identify the owner of the Bodleian MS, to Dr. Mukhtar ud-Din Ahmad.)

^{page 421 note 1} Professor Rosenthal has kindly sent me a copy of the passage of Ibn Rāfi‘. Ibn Rāfi‘ copies textually almost the whole of al-Dhahabī's article, but has also some additional material. He gives a longer genealogy, and specifies some of the books which Ibn al-Buzürī studied under Ibn al-Qubayṭī: vol. I of al-Nasā'i's Sunan (for Ibn al-Qubayṭī as transmitter of this work see Robson, J., ‘The transmission of Nasā'i's “Sunan”’, Journal of Semitic Studies, I, 1, 1956, 55),Google Scholar part of Ibn Māja's Sunan, al-Ājurrī's Akhlāq ḥamalat al-Qur'ān, part of Ibn Shādhān's Ḥadīth, and Abū ‘Ubayd's Faḍā'il al-Qur'ān. He also gives a list of his pupils: Abu'l-‘Alā’ Maḥmūd al-Faraḍī, al-Birzālī, al-Dhahabī, Abū Muḥammad ‘Abd al-‘Azīz b. ‘Abd al-Qādir al-Baghdādī (who studied under him al-Ājurrī's book mentioned above), and Abū ‘Abd Allāh Muḥammad b. Muslim al-Ṣāliḥī. He quotes further from al-Birzālī's Mu'jam a passage by Ibn al-Zamlakānī, which mainly consists of phrases of eulogy similar to those of al-Dhahabī, but also contains the information that Ibn al-Buzūrī has copied many books. Finally Ibn Rāf ‘informs us that after Ibn al-Buzūrī's death the prayer over him was said in the al-Muຓaffarī mosque.

^{page 422 note 1} After having written this article I noticed another manuscript from Ibn al-Buzūrī's library, preserved in the Library of the American University of Beirut, no. 297.3 A 81 1A, containing al-Ash‘arī’s al-Luma‘ and two texts by al-Ghazzālī. See McCarthy, R.J., The theology of al-Ash‘ari, Beirut, 1953, p. xxiv:Google Scholar ‘Underneath this title [of the first text by al-Ghazzālī] something else was written, but it is now illegible because of three small holes and large black blots. In the upper left-hand corner there is a name which seems to be: Maḥfūຓ b. al-Burūrī (?) al-Baghdādī. At the side of the title and at the foot of the page there seem to be other names, on the whole rather illegible’. The name is to be read, evidently, Maḥfūຓ b. al-Buzūrī. (I am informed that the manuscript is missing from the library, so that at present it is impossible to ascertain whether the other entries are connected with Ibn al-Buzūrī.)

^{page 422 note 2} This is the impression received from the handwriting. (Two pages of the manuscript are reproduced in Dunlop's article.)

^{page 422 note 3} His compilation of Nestorian canon law has lately been published: Ibn at-Ṭaiyib, Fiqh an-naṡrānīya, ed. Hoenerbach, W. and Spies, O., Louvain, 1956.Google Scholar

^{page 423 note 1} Add the article on Ibn al-Ṭayyib in al-Bayhaqī, Tatimmat Ṣiwān al-ḥikma (ed. M. Shafi), 27 ff. As I have pointed out in my article on Ibn al-Samḥ, quoted below (see pp. 40–1 of the article), Ibn al-Ṭayyib's comments on the second half of Book VII, and the whole of Book VIII, of Aristotle's Physics are preserved in the Leiden manuscript of the Physics. [Dr. P. Voorhoeve suggests to me in a letter that the Ibn Ṭayyib referred to in that manuscript is not our Ibn al-Ṭayyib, but Muḥammad b. al-Ṭayyib al-Baṡrī, the ‘editor’ of the commentary contained in that volume. This is not impossible, but I still think that it is more likely that our Ibn al-Ṭayyib, who has extensively commented on the works of Aristotle, is meant, rather than al-Baṡrī] The commentary of Ibn al-Ṭayyib (‘Abelfarag Babilonensis’ = Abu'l-Faraj al-Baghdādī) on Aristotle's de Sensu et sensato is quoted by Ibn Rushd in his commentary on de Anima; see Averrois Cordubensis Commentarium magnum in Aristotelis de Anima libros, ed. Crawford, F. Stuart, Cambridge, Mass., 1953, 416.Google Scholar A treatise of Ibn al-Ṭayyib on the ‘natural faculties ’ and Ibn Sīnā's refutation of it are published in Ibn Sina Risâlaleri (Les opuscules d'lbn Sina), I (ed. Ülken), H.Z., Ankara, 1953,Google Scholar 57 ff.

^{page 423 note 2} The commentary on the Isagoge is mentioned by Ibn Abī Uṡaybi‘a, I, 241, lines 10–11.

^{page 423 note 3} I give in sequence the text of the lemmata, which are interrupted in the manuscript by lengthy comments.

^{page 424 note 1} The sentences between brackets are explanatory notes.

^{page 426 note 1} For Parts I–IV, see BSOAS, XVIII, 1, 1956, 9–31, XVIII, 2, 1956, 239–60, XIX, 1, 1957, 13–48, XIX, 2, 1957, 281–303.

^{page 426 note 2} Read:

^{page 427 note 1} MS

^{page 427 note 2} One word.

^{page 427 note 3} Read:

^{page 428 note 1} Two words.

^{page 428 note 2} One word.

^{page 428 note 3} An obscure variant written by author under this word.

^{page 428 note 4} sic.

^{page 428 note 5} Read:

^{page 430 note 1} Uncertain.

^{page 430 note 2} Crossed out.

^{page 431 note 1} sic.

^{page 431 note 2} Read:

^{page 436 note 1} No other information found.

^{page 436 note 2} cf. Abū Bakr Aḥmad b. Muḥammad b. Aḥmad b. Zanjawaih az-Zanjānī (403–?), in Subkī, , Ṭabaqāt ash-Shāfi‘īya, III, 18–19.Google Scholar

^{page 436 note 3} Ref. No. 141 above.

^{page 436 note 4} i.e. the visiting of the tomb of Muṡ‘ab b. az-Zubair, annual pilgrimage performed in the month of ShaȘbān; cf. Muntaຓam, VIII, 77, Kāmil, VIII, 256, 257. See also No. 156.

^{page 436 note 5} i.e., Ibn Riḍwān (BSOAS, XVIII, 2, 1956, 250, n. 3Google Scholar).

^{page 436 note 6} Ref. No. 153 above.

^{page 436 note 7} Abū'l-Ḥasan ‘Alī b. al-Ḥusain an-Nāsikh, known as al-A‘lam; biographical notice in Ibn an-Najjār, Dhail ‘alā Tārīkh Baghdād, MS in the ຒāhirāya Library, Damascus, fol. 215b; partly based on a biographical work by our author Ibn al-Bannā’. This man, al-A‘lam an-Nāsikh, is most likely the same an-Nāsikh mentioned in Nos. 16 and 103; in which case, note 8 in BSOAS, XVIII, 2, 1956, 253,Google Scholar should be amended accordingly.

^{page 436 note 8} No other obituary found.

^{page 437 note 1} Abū ‘Alī al-‘Ukbarī (BSOAS, XVIII, 2, 1956, 253, n. 3Google Scholar).

^{page 0 note 2} This passage was added later by the author, as evidenced by its position in the text.

^{page 437 note 3} Sūra LXXIV, 45.

^{page 437 note 4} No other information found.

^{page 437 note 5} No other information found.

^{page 437 note 6} Abū Ya‘lā, Muḥammad b. al-Ḥusain b. as-Sarrāj (d. 481); biographical notice in Muntaຓam, IX, 46 (Abū Ya‘la as-Sarrāj).

^{page 437 note 7} Possible relation to Abū'l-Qāsim b. Riḍwān (BSOAS, XVIII, 2, 1956, 250, n. 3Google Scholar).

^{page 438 note 1} Abū'l-Ḥasan ‘Alī b. Aḥmad, known by the name of Ibn al-Ḥammāmī (328–417); cf. the biographical notices in Muntaຓam, VIII, 28 (where al-Ḥammamī and Ibn al-Ḥammāmī are used) and in Ibn al-Jazarī, Ṭabaqāt al-Qurrā’, I, 521–2 (al-Ḥammāmī); the author's teacher in Qur'ānic science. See also No. 184.

^{page 438 note 2} Abū'l-Faraj Aḥmad b. Muḥammad, known by the name of Ibn al-Muslima (337–415); biographical notice in Muntaຓam, VIII, 16–17.

^{page 438 note 3} Reigned 381–422; succeeded by al-Qā'im.

^{page 438 note 4} Sūra II, 63.

^{page 438 note 5} Abū'l-Ḥasan ‘Alī b. ‘Abd al-‘Azīz, known by the name of Ibn Ḥājib an-Nu‘mān (340–421); biographical notice in Muntaຓam, VIII, 51–2; secretary for a period of 40 years under the Caliphs aṭ-Ṭa'i‘ and al-Qādir.

^{page 438 note 6} No other information found.

^{page 438 note 7} No other obituary or information found.

^{page 439 note 1} Possible relation of Muḥammad al-Bauwāb, No. 8, above.

^{page 439 note 2} See also No. 183 below.

^{page 439 note 3} Abū Sa‘d al-Muຓaffar b. al-Ḥasan, Sibṭ Abī Bakr Aḥmad b. ‘Alī b. Lāl al-Hamadhānī; biographical notices for both Sibṭ, and his grandfather (d. 398), in al-Khaṭīb al-Baghdādī, Tārīkh Baghdād, XIII, 130–1, and IV, 318–19, respectively.

^{page 439 note 4} For Māwardī (364–450), see GAL, I, 386, Suppl., I, 668.

^{page 439 note 5} The pronoun refers to as-Sibṭ, No. 168 above.

^{page 439 note 6} No other obituary found. The pronoun refers to the daughter of Māwardī in the previous paragraph.

^{page 439 note 7} No other obituary found.

^{page 439 note 8} i.e., Abū Manṡūr b. Yūsuf.

^{page 440 note 1} No other information found.

^{page 442 note 1} Ref. No. 174.

^{page 442 note 2} Ref. No. 167, the ‘new ‘Amīd ’.

^{page 442 note 3} See an-Nadīm, Ibn, Fihrist (Cairo ed.), 53Google Scholar

^{page 442 note 4} Abū ‘Ubaid al-Qāsim b. Sallām (154–222–3–4 ?); cf. Ṭabaqāt al-Ḥanābila, I, 262); see GAL, I, 106–7, Suppl., I, 166–7.

^{page 442 note 5} Abū'l-Ḥasan Aḥmad b. ‘Alī, known by the name of Ibn al-Bādī (d. 420); biographical notice in Ṭabaqāt al-Qurrā’, I, 84–5; cf. Ṭabaqāt al-Ḥanābila, II 243.

^{page 442 note 6} cf. Ṭabaqāt al-Qurrā’, III, 190: ‘Ibn Durrī, unknown by the author ’; and ibid., I, 282, 1. 4: ‘Ibn Durrī ‘Alī b. [blank space]’.

^{page 442 note 7} Abū'l-Ḥasan ‘Alī b. ‘Abd al-‘Azīz al-Baghawī al-Baghdādī (d. 287); biographical notice in Ṭabaqāt al-Qurrā’, I, 549–50.

^{page 442 note 8} These notes, in small handwriting, had been written by the author in three separate columns on a sheet of paper which later served as folio 178. Nos. 184 and 185 do not constitute a part of the Diary proper. The author seems to have run out of paper and to have used this sheet to complete the notations of the day.