2 – Copied during the author’s lifetime, more than thirty years before his death.
3 – The opening page bears a waqf inscription for this copy left by its owner, Muhammad b. Ahmad al-Muzaffari (1), a pupil of al-Sakhawi.

The second copy, designated (B):
This handwritten manuscript is preserved in the Egyptian National Library and Archives, within the Talʿat Collection, Egypt, under shelf-mark (880/5).
Number of folios: five.
Date of copying: Thursday, 16 Muharram 834 AH.
Scribe: Muhammad b. Musa b. ʿImran, the Qur’an reciter (2).
Script: regular naskh.
Characteristics:
1 – A complete copy.
2 – Written in the handwriting of one of the author’s students.
3 – Copied during the author’s lifetime, eighteen years before his death.
4 – A corrected copy, as is evident from the marginal annotations.