and—in that book and in other writings—I set down a substantial collection of related points of benefit, from Benefit (226) through (284).

Given the immense significance of Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī, scholars of every era have lavished care upon it. At the head of those whom Allah favored to serve this masterpiece stands al-Ḥāfiẓ Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī (d. 852 AH). He produced an extensive and invaluable commentary that gathers whatever he gleaned from his predecessors together with the understandings and deductions Allah granted him while studying that magnificent book. This work, Fatḥ al-Bārī, marks a clear watershed between the scholars who came before and those who came after: he collected what the earlier scholars had offered, and those who followed have made his book their chief point of reference.

Fatḥ al-Bārī was printed by the Salafi Press in Egypt, and the first three volumes contain precious annotations by our teacher, Shaykh ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Bāz.