Most of it was written by the Ḥāfiẓ Ibn al-Jawzī, and in its midst there are folios that may constitute about a third of the volume, in the handwriting of Abū al-Khayr Ilyās ibn Ghāzī ibn al-Tuntāsh al-Unarī, as stated on the folio where the chapters on divorce (al-ṭalāq) were completed in his own hand. For therein it says, verbatim: "The chapters on marriage (al-nikāḥ) are completed, and what follows them in the second volume are the chapters on sales (al-buyūʿ), God willing. May God bless our master Muḥammad, his family, and his companions, and grant them abundant peace. Written by the one in need of God's pardon, Ilyās ibn Ghāzī ibn al-Tuntāsh al-Unarī—may God forgive him, his parents, and all Muslims—during the month of Rabīʿ al-Awwal of the year five hundred and eighty [580 AH/1184 CE]. And praise be to God alone." This Ilyās is biographized in Ibn Nuqṭah al-Ḥanbalī's *Takmilat al-Ikmāl* (1), in the Ḥāfiẓ al-Mundhirī's *al-Takmilah li-Wafayāt al-Nuqalā* (2), in the Ḥāfiẓ al-Dhahabī's *al-Mushtabih* (3), in the Ḥāfiẓ Ibn Nāṣir al-Dīn al-Dimashqī's *Tawḍīḥ al-Mushtabih* (4), and in the Ḥāfiẓ Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī's *Tabṣīr al-Muntabih* (5). As for "al-Unarī," it is a nisbah to a grandfather called Unar. He died in Rabīʿ al-Awwal of the year six hundred and four [604 AH/1207 CE].

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(1) Vol. 1, entry (110).
(2) Vol. 2, entry (1011).
(3) Vol. 1, pp. 3–4, under the entry "al-Ibrī"—which is an error on his part, may God have mercy on him. The correct form is what we have recorded, with a ḍammah on the hamzah and an open nūn instead of the bāʾ, as he himself wrote it in his own genealogy, and as the Ḥāfiẓs al-Mundhirī and Ibn Nuqṭah recorded it in writing—and they belong to the generation of his students, so they knew him better than others.
(4) Vol. 1, pp. 119–120, where he drew attention to the error of the author of *al-Mushtabih* and presented it in its correct form.
(5) Vol. 1, p. 30, where he recorded it with a ḍammah on the hamzah, then a nūn, then a zāy—which is an error on his part, may God have mercy on him.