23. Qalhati, Kashf., 224 b; Ruqaishi, Misbah., 74

24. Tabari, Tarikh., VII, 348, 374-76, 399-402; Abu al-Faraj al-Isfahani, Aghani., editor Farraj, XXIII, 111-158.

25. Qalhati, op. cit., 230 a-b.

26. Darjini, Tabaqat., 231-232 Shammakhi, Siyar., 85 For more clearly see below.

27. Lewicki, art. "Al-Ibadiyyah", E.I., 2nd edition 649.

28. Ibn Hazm, al-Fasl fi al-milal wa al-nihal., IV, 191.

29. Loc. cit.

30. Al-Dhahabi, Lisan., III, 248.

31. Ibn Hawqal, Surat al-ard., I, 95.

32. Lewicki, op. cit., 648.

33. Al-Jannawni, K. al-Wad., editor Abu Ishaq, (Cairo n.d. 22); Amr b. Jumai', Muqaddimat al-tawhid., editor Abu Ishaq (Cairo, 1353 H.) 54.

34. Shammakhi, Siyar., 77: al-Qutb, Risalah shafiyah., 43; Jumaili b. Khamis, Qamus al-shari'ah., Ms. Part 88, the page related to the subject.

35. Ibn al-Nadim, al-Fihrist., 258-329.

36. Barradi, al-Bahth al-sadiq wa al-'istikshaf fi sharh K. al-'Adl wa al-'insaf., Ms. I, 29.

37. Loc. cit.

38. Wisyani, Abu al-Rabi' Sulaiman b. ;Abd al-Salam, Siyar., Ms. 15.

39. Barradi, al-Jawahir. Lithogr. Cairo,1302.

40. Almost the same information from Abu Sufyan was reported in the Siyar of Shammakhi, but it is not known whether he was using Darjini only or had access to the original work of Abu Sufyan.

41. A complete copy of this Sirah is to be found in an Omani Ms. of mixed contents which is believed to be part of Tarikh al-Bisyani or his al-Sirah al-Kabirah, (Cl: Salimi, Lum'ah., 84). A Xeroxed copy of this Omani Ms., which was given to me by Omani friends, is in the possession of the Library of the Faculty of Oriental Studies, Cambridge.

42. There are complete copies of this Sirah in: Qalhati, al-Kashf wa al-Bayan., Ms 160a - 195b; The Omani Ms. mixed contents, 125-161; another Omani Ms. of mixed contents together with the Sirah of Abu al-Mu'thir al-Salt b. Khamis, the Sirah of al-Munir b. al-Nayir al-Ju'lani, and the Sirah of Shabib b. 'Atiyah al-Omani (This Ms. also was given to me by a Omani friend).

43. I am using a Ms. of this Sirah sent to me by an Omani friend. It occupies the first 70 pages of a Ms. of mixed contents. For the biography of Abu Kahlan cf. Ibn Midad, Sifat nasab al-'ulama wa mawatihm., 35.

44. For the texts of the sermons of Abu Hamzah and Abdullah b. Yahya al-Kindi cf.: