Shaykh ʿUmar Ḥamdān’s library.

5 – The commentary of Shaykh Aḥmad al-Dehlawī, compiled from Fatḥ al-Bārī and several other sources.

6 – The commentary of Shaykh Muḥammad ʿĀbid al-Anṣārī al-Ḥanafī, resident in Madinah; it is mentioned in the appendix to Kashf al-Ẓunūn.

7 – The commentary of Shaykh Muḥammad ʿAlī Aḥmadīn, a lecturer seconded from Egypt to teach at the Saudi Institute in Mecca; it is still in manuscript form.

8 – Nayl al-Marām, a classroom commentary prepared by Sayyid ʿAlawī al-Mālikī and Ustadh Ibrāhīm Sulaymān al-Nūrī.

9 – Bashīr al-Kirām, a valuable marginal commentary by Sayyid Muḥammad Amīn Kutbī.

10 – Manẓūmat Bulūgh al-Marām by Shaykh Muḥammad ibn Ismāʿīl al-Ṣanʿānī, a poetic rendition that versifies most of the hadiths contained in Bulūgh al-Marām; it has been printed.

11 – al-Ilmām, a documentation and verification of the hadiths in Manẓūmat Bulūgh al-Marām, by Sayyid Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā Zubārah al-Ṣanʿānī; it is published together with al-Ṣanʿānī’s poem.

These are the commentaries and annotations on Bulūgh al-Marām that have come to my knowledge, and they bear witness to the keen interest Muslim scholars have shown in this blessed and valuable work.