My lines will remain in these notebooks for a while,
while my fingertips lie decayed beneath the earth.

All praise is due to Allah.” End of quotation.

Biographical notices of the two copyists

1 – Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad Ḥasan al-Khānpūrī
An Indian scholar and a disciple of Shaykh Nadhir Ḥusayn al-Dihlawī. He engaged in many debates and produced several writings. His son devoted an extensive biography to him in Tadhkirat ʿUlamāʾ Khānpūr (Urdu), pp. 143–191.

2 – Yūsuf Ḥusayn ibn Muḥammad Ḥasan al-Khānpūrī
Also an Indian scholar and a student of Shaykh Nadhir Ḥusayn al-Dihlawī. He authored numerous works in both Arabic and Urdu and took a special interest in the writings of Shaykh al-Islam Ibn Taymiyyah (may Allah have mercy on him). His nephew recorded a lengthy biography of him in Tadhkirat ʿUlamāʾ Khānpūr, pp. 193–249. (1)

Shaykh al-Fiqī remarks in his introduction to al-ʿUqūd (p. 13) that, to the best of his knowledge, the book exists in only a single manuscript held in the Ẓāhiriyyah Library in Damascus. The present Kuwaiti copy (K) was taken from that manuscript and transcribed by the two Indian scholars mentioned above.

I would add that the colophon of this copy makes no reference to the exemplar from which it was copied.