These marginal notes were printed inside the book al-Rawḍah al-Nadiyyah. Important as they are, they constitute only a very small portion of the work, and it would have been perfectly possible to issue the “Notes” in a separate booklet so that people could benefit from them (1)—especially when we know that al-Rawḍah has already been printed and duly serviced, leaving no real reason for another edition. Students of knowledge had already purchased the earlier printing, yet they were forced to buy it again. What made matters worse is that the new edition placed, in its introduction, the complete text of al-Durrar al-Bahiyyah (1/35–76), even though that text is already incorporated in the body of the book.
Moreover, the editor—may Allah pardon us and him—failed to identify the manuscript sources on which he based his editions of al-Durrar and al-Rawḍah. He offered only a passing reference to having benefited from Muḥammad Ṣubḥī Ḥallāq’s edition; it would have been better had he adopted that edition as his primary text, published the Taʿlīqāt al-Raḍiyyah separately in a slim volume, and, with each note, indicated its location in Ḥallāq’s printing.
I have said this only so that scholarly efforts will not be scattered and so that the student of knowledge will not spend his money to no avail. Allah’s help is sought.
• Abridgment of “Aḥkām al-Janāʾiz” (The Rulings on Funerals), [authored] (printed).
• Abridgment of “Ḥijāb al-Marʾah al-Muslimah” (The Muslim Woman’s Veil), [authored].
• Abridgment of “Ṣifat Ṣalāt al-Nabī (peace and blessings be upon him)” (The Prophet’s Prayer Described), [authored] (printed).
See the forthcoming note on “Ṣifat Ṣalāt al-Nabī (peace and blessings be upon him).”
• “Tamām al-Minna” – an annotated edition of “Fiqh al-Sunnah,” [authored] (printed).