Medina, at the Maktabat al-Ghuraba' al-Athariyyah, year 1994 CE.

Some scholars have taken care to collect the rare (gharā'ib) narrations of the Jāmiʿ. Imam Ahmad ibn al-ʿAlāʾi al-Shāfiʿī, in the eighth century AH, composed a book titled: "al-Aḥādīth al-Mustaghrabah fī al-Jāmiʿ al-Ṣaḥīḥ lil-Tirmidhī." The author of "Tārīkh al-Turāth" said: A manuscript copy of it exists in Shahid ʿAlī Pasha under number (353), comprising (150) folios, copied in the year 904 AH.

Likewise, a work was composed on the virtue of the Book of al-Jāmiʿ. The ḥāfiẓ Imam Abu al-Qāsim ʿUbayd ibn Muḥammad al-Isʿardī(1) (d. 692 AH) authored a book titled: "Faḍāʾil al-Kitāb al-Jāmiʿ," which was edited by Shaykh Ṣubḥī al-Sāmarrāʾī and printed by ʿĀlam al-Kutub in Beirut in the year 1409 AH.

PREVIOUS EDITIONS OF THIS BOOK:

The Book of al-Tirmidhī has been printed in several editions, and a number of scholars undertook its publication. Among these editions are:

1 - An edition in India, in Delhi, in the years (1269), (1270), and (1328) AH, and in Lucknow in the years (1310) and (1317) AH.--------------------------------------------
(1) Thus it was vocalized by the two ḥāfiẓs Ibn Nāṣir al-Dīn al-Dimashqī and Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī in their two books "Tawḍīḥ al-Mushtabih" and "Tabṣīr al-Muntabih." It is a nisbah to Isʿard, Saʿard, Saʿirt, or Isʿirt, a city in the region of Armenia, on one of the upper tributaries of the Tigris. Al-Mustawfī described it, saying: "A great city, famous for its fine copper vessels and for the drinking cups that are brought from it." Dr. Bashshār ʿAwwād said: Its people were renowned in later ages for the circumcision of boys, especially in Iraq; thus circumcision in Iraq is called to this day "zaʿartī," which is "al-Saʿardī." See "Buldan al-Khilāfah al-Sharqiyyah," pp. 145–146, and "al-Takmilah li-Wafayāt al-Nuqalah," 2/ (1435).