3 – It was read aloud to Shaykh ʿUthmān al-Dīmī, a disciple of the author (may Allah have mercy on him), and the copy bears his own handwriting and written authorization.
The seventh copy, designated (Z):
This is a handwritten manuscript kept in the Rāghib Pasha Library, within the Süleymaniye Library in Istanbul, Turkey, as part of a composite volume under shelf-mark 1470/2.
Number of folios: 2 folios.
Date of copying: not stated, yet it was transcribed in the ninth century AH, for its scribe was born in 815 AH.
Scribe: Muḥammad b. Aḥmad b. Abī Bakr al-Būṣīrī (1).
Script: an ordinary, clear naskh hand.
Its features:
1 – A complete copy.
2 – The scribe was one of the author’s students (may Allah have mercy on him).
3 – The scribe marked the pauses between sentences of the main text—and certain words—in red ink.