[FN#47] i.e. to prepare himself by good works, etc., for the world to come.
[FN#48] A celebrated Cufan theologian of the eighth century.
[FN#49] i.e. for the next world.
[FN#50] The eighth Khalif of the Ommiade dynasty, a rival in piety and single-mindedness of Omar ben Khettab.
[FN#51] The descendants of Umeyyeh and kinsmen of the reigning house.
[FN#52] The second, fifth, sixth and seventh Khalifs of the
Ommiade dynasty.
[FN#53] The mother of Omar ben Abdulaziz was a granddaughter of
Omar ben Khettab.
[FN#54] Brother of Omar's successor, Yezid II.
[FN#55] This passage apparently belongs to the previous account of Omar's death-bed; but I have left it as it stands in the text, as it would be a hopeless task to endeavour to restore this chaos of insipid anecdote and devotional commonplace to anything like symmetry.
[FN#56] Lit. with (or by) neither book (i.e. Koran) nor Sunneh (i.e. the Traditions of the Prophet).