In the name of Allah, the Most Merciful, the Bestower of Mercy.

My Lord, grant me help.

Al-Zayn Abū Muhammad Abd al-Rahmān ibn al-Imād Abū Bakr ibn Zurayq al-Hanbalī informed us in letters he sent me on more than one occasion: Abū al-Abbās Ahmad ibn Abī Bakr ibn Ahmad ibn Abd al-Hamīd al-Maqdisī informed us, as heard directly from him on Saturday, 24 Safar 797 AH.

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The three shaykhs—Abū Ishāq al-Harmalī, Abū Muhammad al-Baqarī, and Abū al-Abbās al-Raslānī—also wrote to me, saying: The hadith master Abū Abd Allāh Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn Uthmān al-Dhahabī informed us by unrestricted authorization to transmit.

Both said: We were informed by the shaykh and imam, the learned, erudite, exceptionally accomplished and peerless scholar, the exemplary hadith master Abū al-Abbās Ahmad ibn Abd al-Halīm ibn Abd al-Salām Ibn Taymiyyah. Al-Dhahabī specified: through my reading aloud to him in Jumādā al-Ākhirah 721 AH.

He said:

“All praise belongs to Allah. We praise Him, seek His help and guidance, ask His forgiveness, and seek refuge in Allah from