Al-Tustari in Basra, he said: Abu ʿUmar al-Qāsim ibn Jaʿfar ibn ʿAbd al-Wāḥid al-Hāshimī informed us, he said: Abū ʿAlī Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿAmr al-Luʾluʾī narrated to us, he said: Abū Dāwūd Sulaymān ibn al-Ashʿath ibn Isḥāq al-Sijistānī narrated to us.

And it appears on the final folio, the text of which is: The end of the Book of Prayer. It is followed in the second volume, God Almighty willing, by the Book of Alms.

This volume was collated against its original from which it was copied, which is in the handwriting of Muḥammad ibn Ṭāhir ibn ʿAlī al-Maqdisī al-Ḥāfiẓ, and in it is the audition of our shaykh Ibrāhīm ibn Ḥamadiyya, from Abū Ghālib al-Māwardī, and against the original in the handwriting of al-Māwardī, which is the property of the shaykh, the imam, the scholar, the pious, Ḍiyāʾ al-Dīn, Shaykh al-Islām ʿAbd al-Wahhāb ibn ʿAlī ibn ʿAlī ibn ʿUbayd Allāh. Whatever bears the mark (ʿ) of correction, it is what agrees with the second copy, and likewise whatever bears the mark (ṣ) and whatever bears the mark (ṭ), it is from the copy of Aḥmad ibn ʿAlī ibn Thābit al-Khaṭīb. And this copy agrees with both copies entirely, and to God belongs praise and gratitude.

And at the end of this part also appears the following text: All of this volume was heard upon the shaykh, the imam, the scholar, the ascetic, the devout, the great master, the unique, Ḍiyāʾ al-Dīn, Shaykh al-Islām, Abū Aḥmad ʿAbd al-Wahhāb ibn Abī Manṣūr ʿAlī ibn ʿAlī ibn ʿUbayd Allāh al-Amīn — may God prolong his shadow — by the noble lords: the lord, the learned, the most illustrious, Majd al-Dīn Abū al-Saʿādāt al-Mubārak ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Karīm al-Jazarī, and his brother, the shaykh, the imam, the scholar, ʿIzz al-Dīn Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Karīm, with both of them reading together, each one hearing by the reading of the other. And with them heard their sister's son, Ṣafī al-Dīn Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn