both Ṣaḥīḥs); it is an extraction from the two, complete with his own chains of transmission, in forty-eight fascicles (1). The work Nihāyat al-Murād (2) on the Sunan runs to about two hundred fascicles, but he never produced a fair copy of it. Al-Yawāqīt is a single volume, as is Tuḥfat al-Ṭālibīn fī al-Jihād wa-l-Mujāhidīn. Faḍāʾil Khayr al-Bariyyah (3) occupies four fascicles; al-Rawḍah is one volume (4); al-Tahajjud, two fascicles; al-Faraj, two fascicles; al-Ṣilāt ilā al-Amwāt (5), two fascicles; al-Ṣifāt, two fascicles; Miḥnat al-Imām Aḥmad, two fascicles (6); Blame of Ostentation, one fascicle; Blame of Backbiting, one fascicle; Encouragement to Supplicate, one fascicle; The Virtues of Mecca, four fascicles; Commanding the Right, one fascicle; The Merit of Ramadan, one fascicle; The Merit of Charity, one fascicle; The Merit of the First Ten Days of Dhu’l-Ḥijjah, one fascicle; The Virtues of Hajj, one fascicle; The Merit of Rajab; The Death of the Prophet ﷺ, one fascicle; The Oaths by Which the Prophet ﷺ Swore; the book al-Arbaʿīn (7) with a single chain of transmission; Forty Sayings from the Lord of the Worlds; another al-Arbaʿīn; a fourth al-Arbaʿīn; The Creed of al-Shāfiʿī, one fascicle; the book al-Ḥikāyāt, seven fascicles; Taḥqīq Mushkil al-Alfāẓ (8), in two volumes; al-Jāmiʿ al-Ṣaghīr fī al-Aḥkām (9), unfinished; Remembrance of the Graves, one fascicle; Ḥadīths and Stories was