Third: in the handwriting of the ḥāfiẓ Abū Zurʿa, son of the ḥāfiẓ al-ʿIrāqī, on folio 60.

Fourth: in the handwriting of the ḥāfiẓ Burhān al-Dīn al-Biqāʿī, on folios 41 and 59 and elsewhere, dated to the year 845 AH.

Fifth: in the handwriting of the ḥāfiẓ Muḥammad ibn Rāfiʿ al-Salāmī, on folios 72 and 74.

Sixth: in the handwriting of the ḥāfiẓ Yūsuf ibn Khalīl ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Dimashqī, on folios 54 and 73, dated to the year 604 AH. This one was present in the house of al-Malik al-Muḥsin in Damascus at the time of the samāʿ (audition session).

It is stated at the end of the first volume that the completion of its reading was on Sunday, the twentieth of Jumādā al-Ākhirah, in the year 603 AH. This indicates that the copy was completed before this date.

The samāʿ records inscribed in each volume of the parts indicate that this copy traveled between Damascus, Aleppo, Cairo, and Mecca. It ultimately ended up in the city of al-Aḥsāʾ, where it was in the possession of Shaykh Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Qādir, the judge of al-Mubarraz in al-Aḥsāʾ. He gifted it to Shaykh ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Ibrāhīm ibn ʿAbd al-Laṭīf Āl al-Shaykh, and Shaykh ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz gifted it to the General Library in Riyadh, so that patrons of the library who are devoted to ḥadīth and its books might benefit from it. Photographs of it were taken.

The owner of this copy, Sulṭān al-Muḥsin, heard it from ʿAlī ibn Ṭabarzad, whom he had brought from Baghdad to Damascus. For it is stated in the first panel of the original, verbatim: