and eight hundred. I also granted them authorization to transmit it on my behalf, together with everything that I am allowed—and from me may be allowed—to relate, subject to its proper conditions.

Written by Yusuf ibn ʿAbd al-Hadi.

The present scribe, Muhammad Nasir al-Din al-Albani, notes for himself: I finished copying it from a handwritten manuscript kept in the al-Ẓahiriyya Library of Damascus, Collection 68, folios 10–15, shortly before noon on Wednesday, 6 Shaʿban 1374 AH.