The son of Shaykh Muḥibb al-Dīn Yaḥyā, son of the Shaykh, the Imām, Sharaf al-Dīn Yūnus al-Qalqashandī, and ʿAlī (deceased) son of al-Musmiʿ, and Abū Bakr ibn Ṣadaqa ibn ʿAlī al-Munāwī, and Badr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn al-ʿAdl Shihāb al-Dīn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Jalāl, and the virtuous Shams al-Dīn (deceased) Muḥammad ibn the Imām Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥasan al-Usyūṭī, and Shihāb al-Dīn (deceased) Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh (?) and his son Muḥammad, and Quṭb al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn al-Muḥibb Muḥammad ibn al-Jawjarī, and ʿAlī ibn Abī Bakr ibn ʿAlī al-Dahrūṭī, and Yāqūt (deceased) al-Nūbī, and its scribe, and many others — they wrote [their certifications] on the copy of al-Sammāʿ which is in the handwriting of al-Malik al-Muḥsin ibn al-Nāṣir ibn Ayyūb, and it was verified in seventeen sessions, the last of which was the fourth of Ṣafar in the year seven hundred and ninety-seven [AH].

And the session of the completion [of the recitation] was attended by the Imām, the ḥāfiẓ, Zayn al-Dīn ʿAbd al-Raḥīm Abū al-Faḍl ibn al-Ḥusayn al-ʿIrāqī, and his companion, the Imām Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn Abī Bakr ibn Sulaymān al-Haythamī, and the distinguished scholar Burhān al-Dīn Ibrāhīm ibn Mūsā al-Abnāsī. And the ḥadīth connected by primacy (al-musalsal bi-l-awwaliyya) was heard from them before beginning the reading, and it was transmitted in succession for some of the listeners through their hearing of the final part, which is the session of completion.

As for the first two, [they heard it] from Abū al-Fatḥ Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm al-Maydūmī: he told us, al-Quṭb Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿAlī al-Qasṭallānī and ʿAbd al-Raḥīm ibn Yūsuf ibn Yaḥyā [told us]. The first said: my father told us, Naṣr ibn ʿAlī al-Ḥiṣrī told us, Abū Ṭālib Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī al-Naqīb al-ʿAlawī told us, Abū ʿAlī al-Tustarī told us — and by their hearing [of it]... The second and third [heard it] from ʿUmar ibn Ḥasan ibn Umayla al-Marāghī, by their hearing [of it] from Abū al-Ḥasan...