In its margins, it includes benefits and annotations that encompass references to other editions of the Sunan, an explanation of rare terms, and the vocalization of problematic words, relying on al-Ḥāfiẓ al-Mundhirī in his book *Mukhtaṣar al-Sunan*. Shaykh ʿAbd al-Ghanī has clarified his method of collation, as stated on the final folio of the manuscript, saying: "We have completed, praise be to God, the collation of this copy of *Sunan Abī Dāwūd al-Sijistānī* and its vocalization from beginning to end, in sessions the last of which was the evening of Saturday, the tenth of Shawwāl, in the year one thousand ninety-nine [AH]. Its collation was made against multiple copies, amounting in some places to nearly ten or more, and in some places fewer than that, according to what we found and gathered of the parts of this book. We found all the copies of this Sunan to differ greatly in terms of the precedence of some books over others and their postponement, the precedence of some chapters and their postponement, the precedence of some hadiths and their postponement, the variation of some hadith texts, and the variation of some titles of books and chapters. We have aimed for what is closest among these and what is found in the majority of copies, and we wrote the remainder in the margins. We vocalized what was problematic in the hadith texts and in the names of narrators as much as possible, and we recorded the predominant of that in the margins with explicit citation from the books related to that matter. Praise be to God, first and last, outwardly and inwardly, and may God bless our master Muḥammad, his family, and his companions, and grant them peace." Written by the poor and humble servant, ʿAbd al-Ghanī ibn Ismāʿīl ibn al-Nābulusī—may God Almighty sustain him with His aid. Amen.