and of the others as well, and I have recorded their biographical details in a separate volume entitled al-Ikmāl, which lists the names of the transmitters. Success is from Allah alone, and He is the One whose help is sought at the beginning and the end. As for al-Ikmāl fī Asmā’ al-Rijāl by the author of Mishkāt, it has been appended to the conclusion of this book.

The copying of this introduction, together with the insertion of marginal headings and the numbering of its points—originally by Shaykh ʿAbd al-Haqq, the hadith scholar of Delhi, may Allah Most High have mercy upon him—was completed by the servant in need of Allah, Sulaymān al-Ḥusaynī al-Nadwī, on Friday, 9 Shaʿbān al-Muʿaẓẓam 1404 AH, in Lucknow, India.

All praise belongs to Allah, Lord of the worlds, and may blessings and peace be upon the Master of the Messengers, and upon his family and all his Companions.