Al-Madinah al-Munawwarah. There is also an academic thesis for the Master's degree at the Islamic University, undertaken by ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Aḥmad Āl ʿAbd al-Qādir in the year 1412 AH, on a portion of this book as well. Then the book was printed in its entirety, edited by Dr. ʿAbd al-ʿAlīm al-Bustawī in the year 1418 AH.

The statement of Abū Ṭāhir al-Silafī concerning Imām Abū Dāwūd has already been mentioned: "He—may God have mercy on him—was in his time consulted regarding al-jarḥ wa-l-taʿdīl, his words were recorded, and reliance was placed upon him to the utmost degree."

12. "Questions for Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal concerning the narrators, the trustworthy, and the weak": A copy of it exists, incomplete at its beginning, in the Ẓāhiriyyah Library in Damascus, under number 161 (collection 46), of which fourteen folios remain. It may be a part of the "Questions of Abū Dāwūd" previously mentioned under number (5), for the book included some questions concerning the men (narrators).

13. "The Epistle of Abū Dāwūd to the People of Mecca describing the Sunan": It was mentioned by the two ḥāfiẓs al-Silafī and Ibn Ḥajar(1). It was printed in Cairo, edited by the noble scholar Shaykh Muḥammad Zāhid al-Kawtharī, in the year 1369 AH, and it was printed at the beginning of "Badhl al-Majhūd fī Ḥall Abī Dāwūd" in the year 1393 AH, by al-Sahāranfūrī, who died in (1346 AH). Then the noble scholar Shaykh ʿAbd al-Fattāḥ Abū Ghuddah—may God have mercy on him—edited it, retaining most of the comments of Shaykh Muḥammad Zāhid al-Kawtharī, and Dār al-Bashāʾir undertook its printing.

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(1) Abū Ṭāhir al-Silafī in his introduction to the commentary of al-Khaṭṭābī 4/365, and Ibn Ḥajar in "al-Muʿjam al-Mufahras" (1784).