(1)        Saifī Buḵẖāri, ʻArūẓ-i Saifī, (Lahore: Shaikh Mubarak ‘Ali Tajir-i Kutub, 1934), p.4.

(2)        Ibn al-Mu‘tazz, ʻAbd Allāh, Tabaqāt al-Shu‘arā, (Qāhira: Dār al- Ma‘ārif,1986), p.96.

(3)        Saifī Buḵẖārī,ʽArūz-i Saifī, p.4.

(4)        Qadr Bilgarāmī, Qava‘id al-ʻArūz, (Lakhnau: Matba‘ Shām-i Avadh,1288Ah), p.15.

(5)        Ḥamzah ibn al-Ḥasan Isfahānī, Al-Tanbīh ʻAla Hudūs̱ al-Taṣḥīf, (Beirut: Dār al-Ṣadir,1992), p.124.

(6)        Ibn-i Ḵẖallikān, Vafayāt al-Aʻyān, (Qum: Manshūrāt al-Raẓī,1364 A.H), v.2, p.245.

(7)        Qadr Bilgarāmī, Qava‘id al-ʻArūz, p.16.

(8)        JābirʻAli Sayyid, Lisānī-o-ʻArūẓī Maqālāt, (Islamabad: Muqtadirah Qaumī Zabān,1989), p.147.

(9)        Ibn-i Ḵẖallikān, Vafayāt al-Aʻyān, v.2, p.245.

(10)    Maulavī Muḥammad Shafīʻ, Ḵẖalīl bin Aḥmad kī ʻAz̤īm al-Shān Shakhṣiyat, Maqālāt-i Maulavī Muḥammad Shafīʻ (Lahore: Majlis-i Tarraqi-i Adab,2007), v.3,  p.380.

(11)      Jābir ʻAli Sayyid, Lisānī-o-ʻArūẓī Maqālāt, p.148.

(12)      Al-Bayhaqī, Abū Bakr Aḥmad bin Ḥusain, Dalāyil al-Nubuvvah, (Beirut: Dar al-kutub al-Ilmiyya, 1988), v.2, p.199.

(13)      Rāzī, Shams Qais, Al-Muʻjam fī Maʻayīr-i Ash‘ār al-‘Ajam, (Tehrān: Matba’ Majlis,1314), p.20.

(14)      Jābir ʻAli Sayyid, Lisānī-o-ʻArūẓī Maqālāt, p.148.

(15)      Faqīr, Shams al- Dīn, Hadāyiq al-Balag̱ẖat, (Lakhnau: Matba’ Munshī Fakhr al-Din,1302Ah), p.88.

(16)      Rāzī, Shams Qais, Al-Muʻjam fī Maʻayīr Ash ̒ār al-‘Ajam, p.27.

(17)      Al-Jauharī, Ismāīl bin Ḥammād,ʻArūẓ al-Varaqa, (Arẓ-i Rūm: Jāmi ̔a Atā Turk,1994), p.2.

(18)      Safadī, Ḵẖalīl Bin Aibak, G̣ḥais̱ al-Musajjam, (Qāhira: Maktaba al-Azhariyya,1305Ah), v.1, p.30.

(19)      ibid.

(20)      Qadr Bilgarāmī, Qava‘id al-ʻArūz, p.5.

(21)      Javād ʻAlī, Al-Mufaṣṣal fī Tārīkh al-‘Arab Qabl al- Islām, (Bag̱ẖdād: Jamia Bag̱ẖdād, 1993), v.9, p.211.

(22)      Khanlari, Parvez Nātil, Vazn-i Sheʻr-i Farsī, (Tehrān: Intishārāt-e Tūs, 1367Ah), pp.88,89.

(23)      Al-Bairūnī, Abū Raihān, Taḥqīq mā lil-Hind, (Beirut: ʻĀlam-al Kutub, 1983), pp. 95-106.

(24)      Javād ʻAlī, Al-Mufaṣṣal fī Tārīkh al-Arab Qabl al- Islām, v.9, p.199.

(25)      ibid, v.9, p.202.