Previously I had granted the right to print the second edition to the proprietor of al-Maktab al-Islāmī, Zuhayr al-Shāwish. He went on to reproduce it by offset printing in several impressions; I saw the sixth of them, and even that one was missing the first line of page 49. I do not know whether he is still printing it, even though I had warned him not to reprint any of my books—neither with new typesetting nor by photographic reproduction—after I moved to Amman and discovered his breach of scholarly and financial trust and of the rights of companionship (I will not speak of the “rights of mentorship” he claims). There is no space here to give details, but one example will suffice for the esteemed reader: he placed his name alongside mine as co-editor of the book Al-Tankīl, although he had not contributed a single letter to the verification, and then—without my knowledge, of course—he printed that falsification and circulated it among the public!

A certain person in Egypt, notorious for pirating books, had already stolen the work and inserted the name of another contemporary scholar, now deceased, presenting him as a co-editor with me. Jealous of him, our long-standing acquaintance added his own “honorable” name to both of ours—all of this cosmetic tampering for the sake of profit! Let the noble reader judge which of the two is worse.

I have discussed their actions at length in the introduction to the new edition of Al-Tankīl, published by Maktabat al-Maʿārif in Riyadh. He has many, indeed very many, other instances of the same kind of behavior, which I have laid out in the introductions to the following books: Ṣaḥīḥ al-Kalim al-Ṭayyib, new edition, Maktabat al-Maʿārif; Ṣifat al-Ṣalāh, new edition by the same publisher; al-Mundhirī’s Mukhtaṣar Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim, new edition, al-Maktabah al-Islāmiyyah; and Mukhtaṣar Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī, volume two, which has recently appeared through the efforts of Dār Ibn al-Qayyim in Dammam.