• Average words per line: fifteen.
Scribe’s name: The title page bears the note, “This treatise is in the handwriting of the scholar Baydakin al-Turkmanī, a disciple of Ibn Taymiyyah, the author of this work.” Dr. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. ʿAbd al-Jabbār al-Faryuwāʾī observes in his book Shaykh al-Islām Ibn Taymiyyah and His Contributions to Hadith and Its Sciences: “Among Ibn Taymiyyah’s pupils was Idrīs b. Baydakin b. ʿAbd Allāh al-Turkī al-Ḥanafī, the author of al-Lumaʿ fī al-Ḥawādith wa-l-Bidaʿ; he studied under the Shaykh al-Islām.”⦗1⦘
Date of transcription: The colophon reads, “Completed—with Allah’s praise and assistance—on Monday, the seventh of Jumada al-Ākhirah, 808 AH.”
Script and condition: This copy is penned in a clear, vocalized naskh hand, easy to read and free from lacunae or other defects, though it contains no collation notes or audition certificates.
Siglum: (A).
- The second copy: Princeton University Library, New Jersey, USA. It appears within a miscellany that also includes al-Dhahabī’s Kitāb al-ʿArsh, Ibn Qudāmah’s Lumʿat al-Iʿtiqād, and Ibn Taymiyyah’s “Section on the Explanation of the Ḥadith of the Master Supplication for Forgiveness.” A microfilm is held in the Manuscripts Section of the Library Affairs Deanship at the Islamic University of Madinah under number (9742/3).
• Total folios: 8.
• Lines per page: 13.