And heartfelt thanks are due to the Director of the Sacred Mosque Library for authorizing the photographing of a copy onto a CD.

6 – King Saud Copy (D):
A manuscript kept at King Saud University in Riyadh, catalogue no. 1639 (Majāmiʿ). It forms part of a compilation that contains nine treatises; our book occupies folios 31–128, that is, about one hundred leaves.

This is a very late copy, written in 1352 AH by the scribe of the compilation, ʿAbd Allah ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad al-Rubayʿī.(1)

On the title page it says: “Kitāb al-ʿUqūd al-Bahiyyah fī Dhikr Baʿḍ Manāqib Shaykh al-Islām Ibn Taymiyyah, composed by the eminent shaykh, ḥāfiẓ, and meticulous scholar Abū ʿAbd Allah Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-Hādī—may Allah have mercy on him, be pleased with him, and reward him on behalf of Islam and the Muslims with the best reward. Āmīn.”

Written in a circular script surrounding the title is: “Among the favors Allah has bestowed upon His servant, the son of His servant, and His bondwoman, ʿAbd Allah ibn Ibrāhīm al-Rubayʿī—may Allah forgive him, his parents, his teachers, all who have done him good, and all Muslims. Āmīn.”

At the end of the manuscript it reads: “This blessed collection was completed on Wednesday mid-morning, the sixth…"