FOOT NOTES : CHAPTER 6

1 Ibn Sahr Ashub, Manaqib, I, 458.
2 Iktiyar, 557. The work of Ibn Abi Tayy is not extant, but al-Dhahabi used it in writing al-nawbakhti's biography; al-Dhahabi, Tarikh al-Islam, f. 132.
3 T. al-Ghayba, 209-10; Iqbal, Khandan Nawbakhti, 214.
4 T. al-Ghayba, 252-3.
5 Ibid., 250-2.
6 Ibid., 242-3; Bihar, LI, 355.
7 The narrator of this report is Abu Ghalib al-Zurari. He reports that he used to contact the second safir via al-Nawbakhti, who when he became the third safir, contacted the agents of Kufa through al-shalmaghani; T. al-Ghayba, 202.
8 T. al-Ghayba, 242.
9 Kamal, 505-6.
10 The testament of the second safir to Ibn Ruh al-Nawbakhti was reported on the authority of the agents, Muhamma b. Humam and Ja'far b. Ahmad b. Matil, who were present at that meeting and bore witness to the designation. Moreover Ibn Barina, the grandson of the second safir, also reports the testament and agrees with the other agents in regard to its authenticity. Kamal, 503.
11 T. al-Ghayba. 242-3.
12 Ibid., 240.
13 T. al-Ghayba, 255.
14 Sachedina, The Doctrine of Mahdism in Imami Shi'ism (Ph. D.) Thesis, Toronto University (Canada, 1976), 137.
15 al-Dhahabi, Tarikh al-Islam, f. 132.
16 T. al-Ghayba, 240. According to some reports, the decision that Ibn Ruh would be the successor of Abu Ja'far had already been revealed by Abu Ja'far himself to a few agents three years before his death in 305/917. Ja'far al-Mada'ini and Muhammad b. 'Ali al-Aswad were amongst the agents who received these instructions. Kamal, 501-2.
17 T. al-Ghayba, 256.
18 al-Dhahabi, Tarikh al-Islam, f. 132 b.
19 T. al-Ghayba, 250-1.
20 For a full account of the career of Hamid b. al-'Abbas, see al-Kubaysi, op. cit., 190-9.
21 Bihar, LI, 320-1; T. al-Ghayba, 212, 242-3.
22 Iqbal, op, cit., 216.
23 Bihar, LI, 371; T. al-Ghayba, 263.
24 T. al-Ghayba, 197-8, 212.
25 al-Najashi, 293-4; Buzurg, Nawabigh al-Ruwat, 289.
26 T. al-Ghayba, 205-6; Buzurg, Nawabigh al-Ruwat, 96.
27 Kamal, 504.
28 T. al-Ghayba, 240.
29 T. al-Ghayba, 176, 179-80.
30 Kamal, 443-4.
31 T. al-Ghayba, 255.
32 T. al-Ghayba, 202-5. According to Buzurg, al-Qasim died in 304/916. But al-Tusi refers to his activities during the time of the third safir (305-26/917-37), so his death must have occurred after 304/916; t. al-Ghayba, 202.
33 al-Najashi, 289.
34 Kamal, 502.
35 Ibid., 516-7.
36 Kamal, 518-9.
37 al-Jahshayari, al-wuzara', 300.
38 T. al-Ghayba, 199.
39 Iqbal, op. cit., 217.
40 Ibn Khallikan, Wafayat al-A'yan (Cairo, 1948), III, 99.
41 al-Sabi, op. cit., 40-1
42 Ibn Miskawayh, op. cit., I, 123.
43 Ibn Miskawayh, op. cit., I, 120-7.
44 T. al-Ghayba, 200; al-Dhahabi, Tarikh al-Islam, f. 132a.
45 'Arib, op. cit., 141.
46 'Arib, op. cit., 141; T. al-Ghayba. 200.
47 Iqbal, op. cit., 220.
48 Ibn Miskawayh, op. cit., I, 225.
49 al-Suli, al-Awraq, 87.
50 Ibn al-Athir, al-Lubab, II, 27; Yaqut, Irshad al-Arib, I, 296; Mu'jam al-Buldan, V, 288.
51 al-Najashi, 293-4; T. al-Fihrist, 305-6; T. al-Ghayba, 158, 221, 267. It seems that the extant work called Fiqh al-Rida is in fact Kitab al-Taklif of al-Shalmaghani because it has a tradition concerning testimony (al-Shahada) and another concerning the definition of the measure called kurr which al-Shalmaghani gave in contrast to the other Imamites.
52 T. al-Ghayba, 212, 263.
53 Ibn Hawqal, op. cit., 211.
54 Yaqut, Irshad al-Arib, I, 301-3, al-Kamil, VIII, 218-9.
55 Bihar, LI, 374; Hashim al-Hasani, op. cit., II, 575.
56 Bihar, LI, 372; al-Sadr, op. cit., I, 516.
57 such a claim obviously contradicts the beliefs of both the Shi'a and the Sunni alike. For details of God's essential nature according to the Imamites, see al-Hilli, al-Hasan b. Yusuf, Anwar al-Malakut fi sharh al-Yaqut (Teheran, 1338), 77-85, and his al-Bab al-Hadi Ashar, A Treatise on the principles of Shi'ite theology, trans, from Arabic from W. Miller (London 1958), 15-52.
58 al-Kamil, VIII, 218-9.
59 T. al-Ghayba, 268.
60 Ibid., 265.
61 T. al-Ghayba, 253-4.
62 Ibid., 264.
63 al-Kamil, VIII, 218.
64 Yaqut, Irshad al-Arib, I, 302; Ibn al-Athir, al-Lubab, II, 27.
65 T. al-Ghayba. 266.
66 Yaqut, Irshad al-Arib, I, 302-3; al-Shibi, op. cit., 203.
67 al-Dhahbi, al-'Ibar, II, 191.
68 Ibn Miskawayh, op. cit., I, 123.
69 Yaqut, Irshad al-Arib, I, 303.
70 al-Sadr, op. cit., 517-8.
71 T. al-Ghayba, 269.
72 al-Kamil, VIII, 217.
73 Yaqut, Irshad al-Arib, , 299.
74 al-Najashi, 289, 294.
75 Al-Shaybai seems to have been an Imamite Muhaddith but after the deviation of al-shalmaghani he inclined toward him, ignoring the Twelfth Imam's pronouncement against him; T. al-Fihrist; 299; al-Najashi, 309.
76 al-Sadr, op. cit., I, 527; Hashim al-Hasani, op. cit., II, 575. 77 Ibn Miskawayh, op. cit., I, 215-7, 223.
78 Ibid., I, 267.
79 al-Mas'udi, al-Tanbih, 343; Yaqut, Irshad al-Arib, I, 299-304.
80 al-Suli, op. cit., 104.
81 T. al-Ghayba, 252.
82 At the present time the grave of Ibn Ruh is situated on the eastern side of Baghdad, whereas al-Tusi mentions that his grave was in the Nawbakhtiyya district at the avenues which leads to Qantarat al-Shawk, which was located in the western side of Baghdad; Yaqut, Mu'jam al-Buldan, IV, 191; al-'Amid, op. cit., 70.
83 Kamal, 517.