Muhammad ibn Hibat Allah ibn Muhammad ibn Yahya ibn Bundar ibn Mamil al-Shirazi, by his license (ijazah) from Abu al-Fath Nasr ibn Sayyar ibn Sa'id, from Abu 'Amir al-Azdi, and by his license from Abu al-Sa'adat al-Mas'udi, from Abu Sa'id Muhammad ibn 'Ali al-Baghawi, both of them from Abu Muhammad al-Jarrahi... And his hearing (sama') was in the year six hundred and thirty-one.

He also heard it upon Ahmad ibn Abi al-Khayr Salama ibn Ibrahim ibn Salama ibn al-Haddad al-Hanbali, by his hearing from Abu al-Faraj ibn al-Jawzi, by his hearing from Abu al-Fath al-Karukhi... And his hearing was in the year six hundred and fifty-two.

And in every volume (juz') of the parts of this copy there are hearing certificates (sama'at), and among them in the first volume are several, including:

A hearing upon Abu 'Abd Allah Muhammad Nasir al-Din ibn Abi Bakr ibn 'Abd al-Rahman ibn Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn Sulayman ibn Hamza ibn 'Umar ibn Abi 'Umar al-Maqdisi, in the year eight hundred and ninety-six, at the school of Shaykh al-Islam Abi 'Umar on the slope of Qasiyun, outside Damascus, by his hearing from Umm 'Abd Allah 'A'ishah(1) daughter of Ibrahim ibn Khalil, daughter of al-Shirahi, the Ba'labakki—

(1) The Muslim woman, in the era of the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, and in the eras that followed, would acquire a great portion of knowledge and receive the various sciences of Arabic, hadith, and fiqh, in compliance with his saying, peace and blessings be upon him: "Seeking knowledge is an obligation upon every Muslim." And the people of knowledge have agreed that the Muslim woman is included in this obligation. And one of the results of this was that in every era of the Islamic eras there were learned women who would sit at the forefront in the mosques and in the schools =