This volume is likewise a waqf of Sultan Selim Khan—may God have mercy on him with abundant mercy.

Biographies of those whose names appear in the transmission of this copy:

1. Abū Yaʿlā Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-Wāḥid ibn Muḥammad ibn Jaʿfar ibn Aḥmad ibn Jaʿfar ibn al-Ḥasan ibn Wahb, known as Ibn Zawj al-Ḥurrah. He was the youngest of his brothers, born in the year 381 AH. He was trustworthy (ṣadūq), and resided in Darb al-Majūs in Nahr Ṭābiq. He died in Shawwāl of the year 438 AH.(1)

2. Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Shuʿbah al-Marwazī al-Sinjī, known as Ibn Shuʿbah. He resided in Baghdad, where he transmitted the Jāmiʿ of Abū ʿĪsā al-Tirmidhī. A group of Baghdad scholars narrated from him, and he was widely praised. He was a learned, trustworthy, and dignified shaykh. He died in the year 391 AH.(2)

We say: Also hearing with him from Abū al-ʿAbbās al-Maḥbūbī was Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Ḥākim, the ḥāfiẓ, as mentioned by al-Qāsim ibn Yūsuf al-Tujībī.(3)

As for the transmitter from al-Mubārak ibn ʿAbd al-Jabbār al-Ṣayrafī, ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan al-Muqriʾ, we have found no biography for him, except that he was corroborated in transmission by--------------------------------------------
(1) Tārīkh Baghdād 4/270.
(2) "Tārīkh Baghdād" by al-Khaṭīb al-Baghdādī 7/423, and "Barnāmaj al-Qāsim ibn Yūsuf al-Tujībī" p. 107.
(3) "Barnāmajuh" p. 107.