The second copy:
It is a photographic reproduction of the original manuscript preserved in the Central Library of the Islamic University in Medina. We have referred to it in our work as (B).

It was copied by the benevolent king, Sultan Ahmad, son of Sultan Salah al-Din al-Ayyubi, who died in Aleppo in the year 634 AH. He was the owner of the copy and its endower for students of knowledge.

Its script is a legible naskh, with extensive vocalization, and the letters of the alphabet are dotted. It comprises 335 folios.

It is a complete copy, except that its folios are disordered in arrangement, which was able to be remedied and reordered.

Fifty-three folios had been removed from the original, which were later supplied in a modern hand dated to the year 1289 AH, as noted on its final folio. These folios contain 752 hadiths or more, from the beginning, the end, and in between.

This copy was divided into thirty-two parts, according to the division of Imam al-Khatib al-Baghdadi, author of *Tarikh Baghdad*.

It reached the utmost degree of precision and verification, and was circulated among leading scholars, bearing audition certificates (sama'at) in their hands. Among them is an audition certificate in the hand of al-Hafiz al-'Iraqi on folios 31, 34, 39, 55, and others.

And another in the hand of al-Hafiz Ibn Hajar al-'Asqalani on folios 45 and 110, dated to the year 797 AH.