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The MS. consists of 203 folios; but the first leaf bears only the title of the work. Size of the written page is 8½ in. by 5½ in.: thirty to thirty-one lines to a page. On the titlepage appear the words 
, which are of a much later date than the MS. itself, and added probably by some bookseller. The colophon, which is written in the same hand as the text, contains the date 7th Sha'bān, 547. The whole MS. is very closely written and with hardly any diacritical points or vowelsigns. The absence of these and the peculiar style of the writing make it rather difficult reading. Unfortunately the work is not complete in this MS. The whole work was divided into twenty-three sections (
), of which the last ten sections (14–23) are given here complete and the greater part of section 13, of which only a page or two seem to be missing. Thus the first portion of the MS. comprising more than half the work is missing.
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page 55 note 1 See also Fihrist (Leip.), p. 110, 
. See also Ḥaj. Khal., where it is differently given; in Yāqūt, iv, 219, it is 
; in Ibn Khali. 
; but I regard the MS. itself and the Fih. as more accuratein this respect. See also Ibn al-Khair al-Ishbīlī's Fihrist, p. 239.
page 56 note 1 See Brookel., i, 139–141; and Muṣ‘ab’s work referred to above, Brit. Mus. MS. Or. 11336.
page 56 note 2 Fih., 101.
page 56 note 3 Ibid., 97.
page 56 note 4 Ibid., 110.
page 56 note 5 Yāqūt, iv, 218. See also Ibn Khall. (Cairo), i, 336: 
. Also Brockel., i, 141, where both the author and the work are mentioned. Another MS. exists in the Köprulu Library, Istambul, but it also consists of the second half of the work.
page 57 note 1 Yāqūt, iv, 218; Ibn Khall., i, 236; Fih., 110.
pagge 57 note 2 As appears from the title that has been given to the Bodley MS.
page 58 note 1 The reference is to the Brit. Mus. MS. Or. 11336. It is in 110 folios. The written page is 8 in. by 5½ in., with twenty-four lines to a page. It is written in Moroccan Arabic script, and is dated 1131 in the colophon. The title-page bears the name 
in pencil, which is erroneous and which again shows some confusion with Zubair's work; for inside the book at the beginning of every new section (
; there are twelve sections in all) the name is given as 
(see also Fihrist 110). The isnād is given more clearly at the beginning of section ii: 
. 
(note 
is written here and throughout the book with the article, a sign of decadent scholarship). For life of Aḥmad b. Zuhair, Ibn Abī Khaithama, see Yāqūt, i, 128, where, however, instead of 
he is called 
which is obviously wrong (for he is Abū Bakr Aḥmad b. Abī Khaithama Zuhair b. Ḥarb) and where it is confirmed that Ibn Abī Khaithama 
. He died in 279. See also T. Baghdād, iv, 162. For a full biography of Muṣ'ab b. 'Abdullah see T. Bagh., xiii, 112 seq. As the Brit. Mus. MS. was copied as late as a.h. 1131, it is very probable that an earlier MS. of Muṣ‘ab’s work might be in existence somewhere in the Maghrib. So far perhaps this is the only known MS.
page 59 note 1 Yāq., i, 135–6, where, however, instead of 
is given 
, which is erroneous. This passage also incidentally proves Zubair's authorship of the work. See also T. Bagh., iv, 177, where the same incident is described (in fact, Yāqūt took it from the Khatīb al-Baghdādī) and where in the biography of Aḥmad aṭ-Ṭūsī is mentioned that 
, 
. Here, however, instead of 
is given 
which is doubly wrong.
page 59 note 2 
Yāqūt, i, 379, where his full biography is given; see also Ibn al-Jauzi's Muntaẓam, MS. Aya Sofia 3098, p. 157; photographs with Dr. Krenkow, Cambridge.
page 60 note 1 For his biography see Shadharāt adh-Dhahab, iv, 79. He is the author of Ṭab. al-Ḥanābila, Damascus, 1350.
page 60 note 2 His name occurs incidentally in Yāqūt, vi, 32, 338, etc., and his biography is given by Ibn Khall., i, 618. He died in Baghdad in 550. He was the sheikh of Ibn al-Jauzi, and is mentioned by him as authority on most pages of his Muntaẓam (MS. Aya Sofia 3098, biography on pp. 143—4; photographs with Dr. Krenkow).
page 60 note 3 The notes with regard to the MS. of Ibn Farrā' occur on pp. 2 (14th), 16b (15th), 31 (16th), 47 (17th), 74 (19th), 132b (23rd), 145b (24th), 155 (25th), 167b (26th), 179b (27th), 182 (28th); Abu'1-Faḍl, pp. 4 (11th), 23b (12th), 61 (14th), 78 (15th), 96 (16th), 115 (17th), 130 (18th), 147 (19th), 159 (20th), 174b (21st), 189b (24th); Abū Ṭāhir, pp. 44b (14th), 79 (16th), 148b (20th), 164 (21st), 193 (23rd). I take the note on p. 4 where the name is illegible as referring to the MS. of Abu'1-Faḍl. The name Abū Tāhir al-Fatḥ is not certain as it is differently written all through. At first I was inclined to think that he was no other than Abū Ṭāhir al-Mukhallis, but such forms as 
, p. 164, coupled with the fact that the words 
occur on p. 178b, dissuaded me from holding that view. On p. 44b I read 
as 
in other places the 
is clearer.
page 61 note 1 The name of al-Mukhalliṣ occurs in one more marginal note (p. 187b) but it refers only to a reading.
This passage also shows incidentally the esteem in which Aḥmad b. Bakhtiyār, the copyist of the MS., was held by his contemporaries.
page 61 note 3 Yāqūt, vii, 247, where he is incidentally mentioned as a traditionalist, but where his kunya is given as 
, which is wrong. (Cf. v, 176 and 291.) See also Shadharāt, iii, 412, where his full biography is given in the course of which is also given his 'urf 
as it occurs in Abu'l-Faḍl's note in the MS. Here it is also mentioned that he 
who was the son of Abū Bakr b. Shādhān (see Shadharāt, iii, 104) He died in 500.
page 62 note 1 See Sam'ānī, 302, where he and some of his relations are mentioned; also T. Bagh., viii, 29. He died 446.
page 62 note 2 He is al-Qādī Abu'l Qāsim 'Ali b. al-Muḥassin at-Tanūkhī, the son of al-Qādī Abū 'Abū 'Alī al-Muḥassin at-Tanūkhī, the author of Nishwār al-Muḥāḍra. See Yāqūt, v, 301–9. He died 447. See also T. Bagh., ii, 322, where in the biography of al-Mukhalliṣ the isnād 
is given (see the above table, see also note 4 below).
page 62 note 3 T. Bagh., xiii, 113, where in the biography of Muṣ'ab is given the isnād 
where Aḥmad b. Ibrāhīm is no other than Abū Bakr Aḥmad b. Ibrāhim b. Shādhān. See also Shadharāt, iii, 104, where his biography is given. He died in 383.
page 62 note 4 Yāqūt, i, 133, where in the course of his biography it is mentioned that 
See also T. Bagh., iv, 171, where in his biography the isnād 
is given. Here 'Alī b. al-Muḥassin is the same as al-Qāḍi Abū'l-Qāsim 'Alī b. al-Muḥassin at-Tanūkhī (see the above table).
PS.—p. 58, note 1. There is another, though incomplete, MS. of Muṣ‘ab’s work in the Biblioteca Nacional, Madrid. See Catalogo de los codices arabigos, Madrid, 1862, p. 58, No. 151Google Scholar, which contains the last portion of chap, i, ii–vi complete, a great part of vii, last portion of viii, ix complete, and greater part of x: 8°, 108 fols. See also Derenbourg, , Notes sur les M8S. Arabes de Madrid in Homenaje àF. Codera, p. 600, No. occlGoogle Scholar.
See also Fih., p. 321, where both Abū Khaithama Zuhair b. Ḥarb (d. 234) and Ibn Abī Khaithama are mentioned. Also Dhahabī, Tadh. Ḥuff, ii, 24, where the former is described as 
, and p. 172, where the latter is mentioned as 
. According to Ibn Athīr (vi, 298) Abū Khaithama was one of the seven to whom the Miḥna was first issued.
page 63 note 1 His name is incidentally mentioned in Yāq., vi, 186, where he is mentioned as one of the philologists, grammarians, and traditionalists.
page 63 note 2 For biography, see Fawāt, i, 348; ad-Durar al-Kāmina, ii, 364; and Shadharāt, vi, 60. He is the author of al-Ḥawāith al-Jāmi'a, Baghdād, 1351.