good. Here is a description of the two manuscripts:

The first manuscript is in the Shaykh’s own hand, which is extremely clear, and contains corrections. It comprises 22 folios, each containing 38 lines. However, the third folio is missing from both the photographic reproduction and the foliation; in this edition, it covers issues 35 through 57. The Shaykh copied this manuscript from the original version of the book that he had first written. Consequently, when he reached lengthy hadiths—such as Abū Bakr’s hadith on the prescribed rates of zakat and Jābir’s hadith describing Hajj—he did not reproduce them but instead referred to the original, as you will observe from the notes in this edition. I have designated this manuscript by the siglum A.

The second manuscript is in the hand of one of the Shaykh’s students. Its script is contemporary and clear, and it contains corrections. It comprises 109 pages, each containing 14 lines. I have designated this manuscript by the siglum B.

I collated these two manuscripts with the printed edition issued by Shaykh Abdullāh al-Jārallāh. The manuscript exemplar from which manuscript B was copied may well have been the same one used for Shaykh Abdullāh’s printed edition, given the extensive agreement between them. Where they differed, I adopted the reading of manuscript A, which is in the Shaykh’s own hand, unless I considered the reading found in the other two witnesses preferable, or when