The first volume of al-ʿIrāqī's commentary — it is a comprehensive and delightful commentary containing benefits not found in others, especially in its discussion of the ḥadīths of al-Tirmidhī and everything he refers to in the chapter, and in its transmission of the schools of law in a remarkable manner and wondrous style.¹

4. The commentary of the Imām, the ḥāfiẓ, the jurist, Zayn al-Dīn Abū al-Faraj ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Shihāb al-Dīn al-Baghdādī, then al-Dimashqī, known as Ibn Rajab al-Ḥanbalī, who died in the year 795 AH. They have said that it was in approximately twenty volumes, and it was lost among what was lost of the heritage books in the Tatar upheaval in the year 803 AH. Nothing of it remained except a fragment from the Book of Clothing, comprising ten folios, preserved in the Ẓāhiriyyah Library in Damascus. Also preserved from this book is the "Commentary on the ʿIlal," which is at the end of the book, and it has been printed in two volumes, edited by Dr. Nūr al-Dīn ʿItr, at Dār al-Mallāḥ in Damascus in the year 1398 AH.

Had this commentary of Ibn Rajab survived its loss, it would have sufficed — and how well it would have sufficed — in place of the commentaries that have reached us.

5. The commentary of the renowned muḥaddith, the great jurist, Abū al-ʿUlā Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥīm al-Mubārakfūrī, who died in the year 1353 AH. He named it "Tuḥfat al-Aḥwadhī," and it is printed in India together with its comprehensive introduction, and he has —

¹ *Al-Badr al-Ṭāliʿ* 1/355.