Description of the second Ahmet III manuscript:
1 – Volume Three opens with the biography of Abū Burda al-Ashʿarī and ends with the biography of Ibn Abī ʿArūba. It contains (204) folios and was copied in 1002 AH.
2 – Volume Five opens with the biography of Hishām ibn ʿAbd al-Malik and ends with the biography of Ṣāliḥ ibn Mūsā. It contains (200) folios, copied in 1002 AH.
3 – Volume Six opens with the biography of Zuhayr ibn Muʿāwiya and ends with the biography of Ibn Abī Samīna. It contains (259) folios; its copying date is 1004 AH.
4 – Volume Seven opens with the biography of al-Ḥakam ibn Mūsā and ends with the biography of Abū Zurʿa al-Rāzī. It contains (234) folios, copied in 1002 AH.
5 – Volume Nine opens with the biography of Ibn Marwān and ends with the biography of the Imām al-Dāʿūdī. It contains (251) folios, copied in 1003 AH.
6 – Volume Ten opens with the biography of al-Qushayrī and ends with the biography of Shaykh Arslān al-Jaʿbarī al-Dimashqī. It contains (252) folios, copied in 1003 AH.
7 – Volume Eleven opens with the biography of Abū al-Ḥusayn al-Zāhid and ends with the biography of Ibn al-Bayṭār. It contains (214) folios, copied in 1211 AH.

Description of the two photographed volumes from the library of Imām Abū al-Ḥasanāt Muḥammad ʿAbd al-Ḥayy al-Laknawī in India:
1 – Volume Seven opens with the biography of al-Ḥakam ibn Mūsā and ends with the biography of …

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