3 - Abu Abdullah 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, the brother of al-Muwaffaq Ibn Qudama, author of "al-Mughni." Ibn Tulun al-Hanafi said of him: He is the Imam, the musnid, the distinguished scholar, the righteous, the pious, the deeply perceptive, the erudite master, the meticulous in exposition and refinement, the unveiler of obscure problems and difficulties, the clarifier of allusions and indications, possessor of eloquence and fluency of expression, the journey's destination of his time, and the shaykh of hadith scholars. He was born in the year eight hundred and twelve. Al-Sakhawi said: He is a virtuous, excellent, humble person, possessing familiarity and ready recall of a modest number of men and texts, from a great family. (1) We say: He wrote in his own hand several samāʿ records on a number of fascicles of this copy, as he himself stated.

4 - Umm Abdullah Aisha, daughter of Ibrahim ibn Khalil ibn Abdullah ibn Mahmud ibn Yusuf ibn Tamam al-Zubaydiyya, of the Banu al-Samaw'al, originally from Sinjar, from Baalbek, then Damascene, the sister of Jamal al-Din Abdullah the hafiz, known as Ibnat al-Shara'ihi. She was born around the year seven hundred and sixty in Damascus, and she heard much hadith from the companions of al-Fakhr ibn al-Bukhari and others in Damascus, Cairo, and Baalbek. She narrated a great deal, and the imams heard from her, including Ibn...

(1) "Al-Daw' al-Lami'" by al-Sakhawi, 7/169-171. What Ibn Tulun said is recorded in his own hand on the leaf preceding the title page of the first volume of this copy. Her great-grandfather, Abu Umar al-Maqdisi, was the founder of the famous Umariyya school at the foot of Mount Qasiyun on the outskirts of Damascus. Al-Dhahabi gave his biography in "al-Ibar," 5/25.