Third: The copy of the Süleymaniye Library, designated by the symbol (D).

It is a precious, complete, collated copy photographed from the original manuscript located in the Mahmud Pasha Library in the Süleymaniye in Istanbul. It was read before al-Ḥāfiẓ al-Mundhirī, al-Ḥāfiẓ Quṭb al-Dīn al-Qasṭallānī, al-Ḥāfiẓ Sirāj al-Dīn al-Bulqīnī, and others. It was written in a fine naskh script, comprising 304 folios, with 27 lines per page, and approximately 27 words per line. Its margins contain numerous corrections and a number of audition certificates (samāʿāt).

The chain of transmission (sanad) of this copy is not mentioned at its beginning, but at its end, at the start of the Book of ʿIlal, the following text appears: "We were informed by the judge Abū ʿĀmir al-Azdī, and the Shaykh Abū Bakr al-Ghūrjī, and the Shaykh Abū al-Muẓaffar ʿUbayd Allāh ibn ʿAlī ibn Yāsīn ibn Muḥammad al-Dahhān, who said: We were informed by Abū Muḥammad al-Jarrāḥī, who said: We were informed by Abū al-ʿAbbās al-Maḥbūbī, who said: We were informed by Abū ʿĪsā al-Ḥāfiẓ al-Tirmidhī, who said..."

The scribe of this copy is the Shaykh Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Karīm ibn ʿAlī ibn Jaʿfar ibn Dirāda al-Qurashī, as he himself states at the end of the Book of ʿIlal, mentioning that he finished copying it on the evening of Tuesday, the sixth of Shawwāl, in the year six hundred and fifty-five (655 AH).

This copy contains several audition certificates (samāʿāt), including:

1. An audition before the Imām, al-Ḥāfiẓ Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd al-ʿAẓīm ibn ʿAbd al-Qawī al-Mundhirī, in sessions the last of which was on Sunday, the sixteenth of Shaʿbān, in the year six hundred and fifty-six (656 AH), at the Dār al-Ḥadīth al-Kāmiliyya, and he attended.