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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 March 2011
The historical notices concerning the poet Ṭufail al-Ḡanawī are exceedingly scanty. Al-Aṣma'ī states that he was the most ancient poet of the tribes of Qais 'Ailān, and that he was older than an-Nābiḡa. This assertion, which is frequently repeated, may be accounted for by the little knowledge about his life which had come down to the grammarians of al-BaṢra and al-Kūfa; it can, however, hardly be correct, when we consider the few historical facts wrhich I have been able to gather. His name and genealogy is, with slight variations, given on the authority of Ibn al-Kalbī, the same as in the introduction to the poem: Abū Qirān Ṭufail b. 'Auf b. 
b. Ḍubais b. Mālik b. Sa'd b. 'Auf b. Ka'b b. Jillān b. Ka'b b. Ḡanm b. Ḡanī b. A'ṣur b. Sa'd b. Qais (b.) 'Ailān b. Muḍar.
page 815 note 1 Aḡ. xiv, 88Google Scholar.
page 815 note 2 Aḡ. xiv, 88;Google Scholar
iii, 643.
page 815 note 3 Aḡ.
page 815 note 4 Aḡ. 
but this name was omitted by Muḥammad b. Ḥabīb.
page 815 note 5 I have collected 171 verses in addition to those contained in this poem.
page 816 note 1 Compare v. 5 of the fragment of Ṭufail in the introduction.
page 816 note 2 vii, 147.
page 816 note 3 Aḡ. xvi, 52Google Scholar.
page 816 note 4 vv. 1–3, Majmū'at al-Ma'ānī, 180; vv. 4–8, Bakrī, 595; vv. 9–10, I. Qutaiba, Poesis, 158.
page 817 note 1 Aḡ. xvi, 52Google Scholar, 
page 817 note 2 Bakrī, 
Aḡ. xvi, 52, as text.Google Scholar
page 817 note 3 Aḡ. xvi, 52,
Google Scholar
page 818 note 1 Aḡ. vii, 147.Google Scholar This appears to be the same person referred to by Abu ‘Amr aš-Šaibānī (Aḡ. xiv, 90),Google Scholar where his name is given as Harim b. Sinān b. ‘Amr b. Tarbū' b. Tarīf b. 
b. ‘Ubaid b. Ka'b b. 
(read Jillān) b. Tamīm b. Ḡanī; he was killed by a son of Harim b. Sinān al-'Absī. The whole tale is badly misprinted, also the verses of Ṭufail which follow, but I believe we can safely correct the name to Sayyār b. Harīm, which also would fit better in the third verse of Ṭufail quoted there.
page 817 note 2 vv. 1–8, Aḡ. xvi, 52–3;Google Scholar vv. 9–12, Bakrī, 393. Another verse is found, L.A. xiii, 436,Google Scholar but it has no connection with these twelve versus.
page 819 note 1 Haffner Texte, 133, with the following variation
page 820 note 1 9 A.H. He died very soon afterwards.
page 820 note 2 I. Sa'd, iii a, 32.
page 821 note 1 
iii, 643.
page 821 note 2 He was killed on Sunday, 5 Rajab, 243 A.H. (28th Nov., 857).
page 821 note 3 v. 22 twice, 24 twice, 36, 45.
page 822 note 1 vv. 44, 69.
page 822 note 2 Ten times, vv. 19, 22, 23, 26, 35, 40, 48, 53, 55, 57.
page 822 note 3 vv. 57, 58.
page 822 note 4 vv. 40, 45.
page 822 note 5 v. 12.
page 822 note 6 
iii, 643.
page 830 note 1 MS. 
page 830 note 2 MS. 
page 830 note 3 Esc. fol. 19b, poem 3, v. 17.
page 831 note 1 MS. 
page 831 note 2 Jamh. 173, 5.
page 831 note 3 Maid, ii, 250Google Scholar.
page 832 note 1 Altered from 
in MS.
page 833 note 1 L.A. vi, 333Google Scholar.
page 834 note 1 Vowels in MS. in both instances.
page 835 note 1 Cf. 
Naqāiḍ 57, 11.
page 835 note 2 MS. 
page 835 note 3 MS. 
page 835 note 4 MS. 
also in Comments with 
.
page 835 note 5 MS. 
page 836 note 1 Cf. I. Wallād, 131.
page 836 note 2 MS. 
page 836 note 3 MS. 
page 837 note 1 MS. 
page 837 note 2 MS. 
page 837 note 3 4, v. 20.
page 838 note 1 35, v. 13.
page 838 note 2 Cf. verse 26a of this poem.
page 838 note 3 MS. 
with 
page 838 note 4 MS. 
throughout.
page 839 note 1 MS. 
page 839 note 2 MS. 
also in comments, with 
under the letter.
page 840 note 1 MS. 
throughout.
page 841 note 1 MS. 
page 841 note 2 MS. 
page 842 note 1 MS. 
page 842 note 2 MS. 
page 842 note 3 35, v. 13.
page 843 note 1 App. 22, v. 9.
page 843 note 2 MS. fol. 117.
page 843 note 3 MS. 
page 843 note 4 MS. 
page 844 note 1 MS. 
page 845 note 1 MS. 
page 846 note 1 MS. 
page 846 note 1 MS. 
throughout with 
.
page 847 note 1 MS. 
also in Comments.
page 848 note 1 MS. 
page 848 note 2 MS. 
page 849 note 1 MS. 
page 849 note 2 So MS., perhaps 
The text is here in confusion; perhaps 
should be inserted before 
page 849 note 3 MS. 
page 849 note 4 MS.
page 849 note 5 So MS.
page 850 note 1 MS.
page 851 note 1 MS. 
page 852 note 1 So in MS.
page 852 note 2 Aṣm. 32, v. 7; Ḥam. 265.
page 853 note 1 MS. 
perhaps better 
[Geyer].
page 853 note 2 40, v. 52.
page 853 note 3 17, v. 1.
page 853 note 4 Qor. 100, v. 1.
page 854 note 1 MS. 
page 854 note 2 MS. 
page 855 note 1 MS. 
page 855 note 2 MS. 
page 855 note 3 MS. 
page 856 note 4 MS. 
page 857 note 1 Qor. 22, v. 28.
page 858 note 1 MS. 
page 858 note 2 MS. 
page 859 note 1 MS. 
twice.
page 859 note 2 Cf. A. Zaid Nawādir, p. 80.
page 859 note 3 MS.
page 860 note 1 Ṭabarī Tafsīr, xvi, 49,Google Scholar where also a second line 
Also Ṭab. Annals, i, 754,Google Scholar and Lane 472c.
page 860 note 2 MS. 
page 861 note 1 MS. 
corrected by later hand.
page 861 note 2 MS. 
page 862 note 1 MS. 
page 862 note 2 MS. 
page 862 note 3 MS. 
also in Comments.
page 863 note 1 MS. 
page 863 note 2 MS. 
page 863 note 3 MS. 
page 863 note 4 MS. 
page 863 note 5 MS. 
page 864 note 1 MS. originally 
also in glosses, both, corrected by later hand.
page 864 note 2 So MS. should we read 