The volume of our colleague Dr. Ahmad Ma'bad—may God guide his steps to the truth—from which two volumes were published containing eleven hadiths, excluding the introduction, in the year 1409 AH.

3. The commentary of the great hafiz Abu al-Fadl 'Abd al-Rahim ibn al-Husayn Zayn al-Din, of Kurdish origin, Egyptian by upbringing and residence, which is a continuation of the commentary of Ibn Sayyid al-Nas. He began it from where Ibn Sayyid al-Nas had ended. What al-Hafiz al-'Iraqi accomplished of this commentary can be determined by relying on the statement of al-Hafiz Ibn Hajar, his student: "He produced a fair copy of a great deal of his continuation of the commentary on al-Tirmidhi, and he had completed it in draft form, or nearly so. I wrote down from him about a volume's worth of it, and I read most of it to him."(1)

Dr. Ahmad Ma'bad said in the introduction to "al-Nafh al-Shadhi"(2): This estimate of al-Hafiz Ibn Hajar is based on his direct connection to the book and his examination of most of it, and therefore it takes precedence over the estimates of others. He also specified what he had produced in fair copy, saying: "What he produced in fair copy extends to the end of the Book of Clothing."(3) This book is the twenty-second of the books of "Jami' al-Tirmidhi," whose total number is forty-seven books, the last of which is the Book of 'Ilal, which is the end of the "Jami'." Thus, the total number of hadiths he commented on in fair copy is 1470.

Al-Shawkani, the author of "Nayl al-Awtar," said—having examined--------------------------------------------
(1) "al-Mujma' al-Mu'assas" 2/182.
(2) 1/73.
(3) "al-Mu'jam al-Mufahras" p. 399.