and he proves this by pointing out that the prayer was made the coolness of the Prophet’s eyes ﷺ. The author then delights and enriches you by describing the six stations of the prayer; when they come together for a worshipper, the prayer becomes the coolness of his eyes and the repose of his heart.

He ends the treatise by stating that the essence of the whole matter lies in four things: a sound intention, strong resolve, hopeful desire, and reverent fear.

In preparing this critical edition I followed the following method:

1. I began with an introductory section in which I verified the treatise’s attribution to its author, discussed its significance, described the printed and manuscript copies, clarified the title, and identified the addressee.
2. I collated the manuscripts and recorded the differences among three copies.
3. I traced the Qur’anic verses, the hadiths, and most of the other reports, and I quoted the judgments of certain scholars on hadiths found outside the two Ṣaḥīḥs—whether they declared them sound or weak.
4. I documented most of the poetic lines cited.
5. I supplied brief biographies of the named figures, except for those who are already well known, such as the leading Companions and the foremost jurists and hadith scholars.
6. I corrected spelling errors without annotation, and grammatical or linguistic errors with a marginal note.
7. Where the base manuscript contained an error, I placed the correct form in the main text within brackets [ ], and in the footnote I indicated the source or reasoning for the correction.