[18] Ḳur-án, ch. xiii. v. 3, and several other places.
[19] Idem, ch. ii. v. 20, and ch. lxxviii. v. 6.
[20] Idem, ch. lxxi. v. 18.
[21] Mek-ḥool, quoted by Ibn-El-Wardee.
[22] Wahb Ibn-Munebbih, quoted by El-Maḳreezee, is his "Khiṭaṭ."
[23] Ibn-El-Wardee, however, says that its name is derived from its terrors and difficulties.
[24] These are monsters who will be described in a subsequent note.
[25] History of El-Khiḍr in the "Mir-át ez-Zemán" (MS. in my possession), a great history, whose author died in the year of the Flight 656.
[26] El-Ḳazweenee (MS. in my possession).
[27] Moḥammad's answers to 'Abd-Allah Ibn-Selám, quoted by Ibn-El-Wardee.