“millstone around his feet”: Madelung, Succession to
Muhammad, citing al-Baladhuri, Ansab al-Ashraf
(Lineage of the Nobles).Chapter 9
“one of nine stuʃed beds”: Madelung, Succession to
Muhammad, citing Shia hadith from al-Majlisi,
Bihar al-Anwar (Ocean of Light).Chapter 10
“a bubbling spring in an easy land”: This and other
sayings of Muawiya on the exercise of power in
Humphreys, Muawiya, citing al-Baladhuri, Ansab
al-Ashraf (Lineage of the Nobles).
“will you be cuckolds?”: Rogerson, Heirs of the Prophet,
citing al-Waqidi’s eighth-century Kitab al-Tarikh
wa al-Maghazi (Book of History and Campaigns).
135 “I see Syria loathing the reign of Iraq”: Madelung,
Succession to Muhammad, citing al-Minqari’s
Waqiat Siffin (The Confrontation at Siffin).