9 - The commentary of the memorizer (al-ḥāfiẓ) Jalāl al-Dīn Abū al-Faḍl ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Abī Bakr al-Suyūṭī, who died in the year nine hundred and eleven (AH). The name of his commentary is: "Marqāt al-Ṣuʿūd ilā Sunan Abī Dāwūd" (The Ascent's Stairway to the Sunan of Abū Dāwūd)(1).

According to the comprehensive index of the Āl al-Bayt Foundation, several manuscript copies of it exist(2).

ʿAlī ibn Sulaymān al-Dimnatī al-Bujumʿawī, who died in the year one thousand three hundred and six (AH), abridged it and named it: "Darajāt Marqāt al-Ṣuʿūd" (The Degrees of the Ascent's Stairway). It was printed in Cairo in the year 1298 AH, that is, during his lifetime.

10 - The commentary of the muḥaddith, the distinguished scholar, Shaykh Abū al-Ṭayyib Shams al-Ḥaqq al-ʿAẓīmābādī, who died in the year (1329 AH). Its name is "ʿAwn al-Maʿbūd Sharḥ Sunan Abī Dāwūd" (The Help of the Worshipped One: Commentary on the Sunan of Abū Dāwūd). It was printed in Delhi, India, in the year (1322 AH) in four volumes, then the Salafiyyah Library in Medina published it in the year (1389 AH) together with "Tahdhīb Sunan Abī Dāwūd" by Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyyah.

11 - The commentary of the muḥaddith, the distinguished scholar, Khalīl Aḥmad al-Sahāranfūrī, head of the University of Maẓāhir al-ʿUlūm in India, who died in the year (1346 AH). Its name is "Badhl al-Majhūd fī Ḥall Abī Dāwūd" (The Exertion of Effort in Elucidating Abū Dāwūd). It was printed in India, then printed in Beirut at Dār al-Kutub al-ʿIlmiyyah in twenty parts in ten volumes. This commentary has a gloss by al-Sahāranfūrī's student, the Shaykh and muḥaddith Muḥammad Zakariyyā al-Kāndahlawī, which is very beneficial.

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(1) Ḥājjī Khalīfah in "Kashf al-Ẓunūn" 2/ 1005.
(2) The section on Prophetic Hadith 2/ 991 - 992.