• al-Maktaba al-Islamiyya in Amman.

(2) I have simply placed the letter (Ṭ) at the end of those titles that have been printed; whatever lacks this mark is a manuscript. As for books that are lost, I have indicated that, and I have done the same for works the Shaykh did not complete.

(3) The Shaykh sometimes refers to a single work by more than one title when cross-referencing it (1). Therefore, I list the book in the Thabat under every such title, but assign it one number and point the reader to that number whenever its other names appear. For example:
Takhrij Mishkat al-Masabih = Mishkat al-Masabih.

(4) I also provide more than one entry for certain books to make them easier to locate. This applies especially to rebuttals: I may list them under the title of the work being refuted and then cross-reference the reply, as in:
Al-Albani: His Aberrations and Errors = A Rejoinder to the Epistle “Irshad al-Salafi”.
Hadith Texts in General Culture = A Critique of “Hadith Texts in General Culture”.
And so on.
I mention this here so that no one will object; terminology is not worth disputing.

(5) Some of the Shaykh’s works are missing, as he himself states in a number of his books. They include:
Mukhtasar Sahih Muslim (four volumes), which is not the printed epitome to be mentioned later;
and A Rebuttal of Shaykh al-Tuwajri’s Treatise on Issues from the Prophet’s Prayer.
Most—if not all—of what is missing disappeared when the Shaykh moved from Damascus to Amman; Allah knows best.

(6) Certain editions of his books are very old and rare, virtually lost; only a few students possess photocopies taken from major libraries. Among them:
al-Sirat al-Mustaqim (an epistle on what reliable scholars have affirmed concerning the night of mid-Shaʿban), compiled by a group of scholars from al-Azhar;
and Laftat al-Kabid fi Nasihat al-Walad by Ibn al-Jawzi.

(7) Some of his works, though written long ago, have never been printed, nor did the Shaykh complete them. Among these are: