These are a few examples. The other editions relied on this edition, reproducing its errors and adding further ones.

(3) The ‘Abd al-Latīf edition: This edition appeared in 1347 AH = 1928 CE. Its printing was funded by Muhammad Effendi Muhammad ‘Abd al-Latīf, proprietor of the Egyptian Printing Press. It consists of four parts in two volumes. At the beginning, it states that it was corrected “by several distinguished scholars, collated against several copies, and read through for the final time before the eminent scholar, Shaykh Hasan Muhammad al-Mas‘ūdī, a teacher in the higher division of al-Azhar.”

We found no trace of this collation in the edition’s marginal notes, nor did the editors describe the copies mentioned in a way that would enable their identification. While preparing the critical edition of the first volume, we observed that it relied entirely on the preceding Maymaniyya edition. As for the fourth volume, dealing with medicine, it became clear to us that this section had been collated against a manuscript resembling Ibn al-Habbāl’s copy, preserved in the Topkapı Sarayı Library (ل). However, when editing the section on Prophetic medicine, we did not have the second volume of the Maymaniyya edition available to compare the two editions. It may be said that in this section, too, it did not rely on the Maymaniyya edition.

(4) The al-Fiqī edition: This edition appeared in four volumes in 1373 AH = 1953 CE, edited by Shaykh Muhammad Hāmid al-Fiqī, may Allah have mercy on him. He stated on its cover that it had been “checked against two manuscripts in the Egyptian National Library; the hadiths were compared with their original sources in the Six Books and elsewhere; and discussions of the defects in the hadiths and of their transmitters were included.”