Nor is there in the Ẓāhiriyyah Library—now the al-Asad Library—any trace of the copy to which Shaykh al-Fiqī referred; Allah knows best.

Despite its relatively late date, this manuscript is of good quality, well worth collating and benefiting from. Its value is enhanced by the fact that it is written in the hand of two Indian scholars. Moreover, the margins indicate that it was compared with another copy, and it is quite possible that the recorded variants go back to the archetype itself, as is explicitly stated in several places in the manuscript.

The book was first printed on the basis of this very copy.

My warmest thanks go to the two honorable shaykhs, Yusuf al-ʿAli and Walid al-ʿAli, for kindly photographing the manuscript and sending it to me. Ongoing gratitude is likewise due to our colleague Shaykh Zahir al-Faqih for his careful collation of most of this copy and of copy (F).

5 – Copy held in the Library of the Sacred Mosque in Mecca (H)
A copy preserved in the Library of the Holy Mosque in Mecca under no. 2854 (Biographies). It consists of 155 folios in small format; the text of our book ends on folio 153, followed by two folios containing useful excerpts from other works.

This is a complete manuscript, penned in Jumada al-Akhirah 1295 AH by ʿAbd al-Rahman ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAziz ibn Muhammad ibn Fawzan.

He recorded its title as: “al-ʿUqūd al-Durriyyah fī Dhikr Baʿḍ Manāqib Ibn Taymiyyah.” This is one of the distinctive features of this late copy, for no other manuscript bears this particular title.