852 AH—about two months before the author’s death—and was transcribed by the author’s pupil Maḥmūd ibn Ismāʿīl al-ʿAynī (1).
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The seventh copy, designated (S):
This handwritten manuscript is preserved in the Aya Sofya Library, within the Süleymaniye collection in Istanbul, Turkey, under catalogue number 440/1. It was copied in 857 AH by Yaḥyā ibn ʿAbd al-Ghanī al-Imām. The manuscript was read with Shaykh ʿUthmān al-Dīmī—one of the author’s students—in a session of critical examination and verification; it bears his handwriting and his signed authorization. -
The eighth copy, designated (ʿ):
This handwritten manuscript is kept in the Asʿad Efendi Library, within the Süleymaniye collection in Istanbul, Turkey, under catalogue number 3951. It was copied in Ṣafar 869 AH by Aḥmad ibn Shaʿbān ibn ʿAlī ibn Shaʿbān ibn Muḥammad al-Anṣārī (2). It was transcribed from a copy that had been read to the author in an analytic review session and bears his handwriting. It was likewise read with Shaykh ʿUthmān al-Dīmī—another of the author’s students—in a session of careful scrutiny, and the manuscript carries his handwriting and signed authorization as well.