Technical note / Defect ('illah): (2) The statement: "And Qatadah bin al-Nu'man was his maternal half-brother" — in our manuscripts these words occur like this here, in the biography of "Malik", the father of Abu Sa'id; this is an insertion that misleads the reader into thinking that Qatadah was perhaps Malik's brother, whereas the correct position is that he was the maternal half-brother of "Abu Sa'id al-Khudri", as will come later in his biography.