In the name of Allah, the Most Compassionate, the Most Merciful.

Introduction to the Critical Edition

All praise belongs to Allah, Lord of the worlds—the All-Merciful, the Very-Merciful, Master of the Day of Judgment. May blessings and peace rest upon the trustworthy Prophet, who was given the Seven Oft-Repeated Verses and the Magnificent Qur’an, and upon his family and all his Companions.

To proceed:

This is a fresh contribution from the legacy of al-Ḥāfiẓ Ibn Rajab al-Ḥanbalī, which Allah—exalted is He—enabled me to discover. To the best of my knowledge, it is appearing in print for the first time. I ask Allah to make it beneficial and to bless it.

Description of the manuscript:

I based the editing of this section on a single manuscript kept in the collections of Princeton University, USA. I obtained a photographic copy of it from the King Fahd National Library in Riyadh. It consists of 23 folios; its script is clear and legible, and it has not—