The second is likewise held in the Manuscripts Library of Imam Muhammad ibn Saud Islamic University under catalogue number (105/F), and I have designated it with the letter (Ṣ).
The third is from the library of our virtuous brother, Shaykh al-Walid ibn ʿAbd al-Rahman al-Faryan; he photographed it from one of the private collections, and I have marked it with the letter (B).
I compared these three copies with the printed edition, as well as with Lawāmiʿ al-Anwār al-Bahiyya¹ by al-Safarini, for he quoted a large portion of these principles verbatim from Badaʾiʿ al-Fawāʾid. In view of the many errors found in the three manuscripts and in the printed edition, I did not rely on any one of them as a base text; rather, I collated the copies and recorded in the main body only what I judged to be correct and sound. For the same reason I also chose not to overburden the footnotes by listing every single variant among the copies, restricting myself instead to what would be of real benefit. In addition, I have cited each Qur’an verse in its proper place and have extracted