5 – Table of Contents

Editor’s Introduction 5
Biography of the Author 7
Selected Accounts of His Life 9
His Works 10
His Death 12
His Biographers 12
Description of the Manuscript 15
Biography of the Scribe 17
Chain of Transmission of the Manuscript 17
Biographies of the Men in the Chain of Transmission 18
Explanation of the Meaning of “the Decreed” 21
Authentication of the Work 21
Its Title 25
Editorial Method 25
Text of The Book of Sincerity and Intention 29
The Eight Ascetics 42
A Deed Is Accepted Only When It Is Sincere and Correct 50
Verses on the Virtue of Inner Righteousness 53
The Andalusian Scholars’ Technical Usage of the Term “Fair Hadith” 57
Supplementary Material from Ibn Rajab’s Jāmi al-Ulūm wa-l-Hikam 72
Supplementary Material from al-Zabīdī’s Ithāf al-Sāda al-Muttaqīn 75