The fourth copy, designated (L):
This is a handwritten manuscript kept in the Princeton Library (Garrett Collection), USA, under catalogue number 3949. It was copied on 3 Rajab 850 AH by the author’s pupil Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Mughayzil—also known as Ibn Ḥammād—al-ʿAbdarī al-Ḥamawī al-Shāfiʿī (1). The manuscript was read aloud to the author, and it bears both his handwriting and his written license.

The fifth copy, designated (M):
This handwritten manuscript is preserved in the Ẓāhiriyya Library in Damascus, Syria, under catalogue number 4895. It was transcribed in Ramaḍān 851 AH—about one year before the author’s death—by Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Akhṣāṣī al-Shāfiʿī (2), one of the author’s pupils. It was reviewed with the author in an analytic reading session, and it carries his handwriting.

The sixth copy, designated (N):
This handwritten manuscript is housed in the Ḥakīm Oğlu Library, within the Süleymaniye collection in Istanbul, Turkey, under catalogue number 155. It was copied in Shawwāl,