al-Yaʿmarī, who died in the year (734 AH), commented on a portion of it, reaching in his commentary the eighth ḥadīth of the chapter on "What Has Been Related That the Entire Earth Is a Mosque Except for the Graveyard and the Bathhouse." We possess a photographed copy of this portion from the original manuscript. Then this commentary was completed by the ḥāfiẓ, the critic, the Imām Abū al-Faḍl ʿAbd al-Raḥīm ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-ʿIrāqī, who died in the year (806 AH). He began his commentary from where the ḥāfiẓ Ibn Sayyid al-Nās had stopped, and continued until the commentary on ḥadīth (1711). We have already described this commentary in what has preceded, and we possess a photographed copy of both commentaries.

Among the sources to which we also referred and from which we benefited is "Tuḥfat al-Aḥwadhī fī Sharḥ Jāmiʿ al-Tirmidhī" by its author, the renowned muḥaddith Abū al-ʿUlā Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥīm al-Mubārakfūrī, who died in the year (1353 AH). It is printed in five large volumes, including the introduction, in India.

OUR WORK IN THE CRITICAL EDITION

In editing this book, we have followed the soundest and most precise rules of textual criticism, and we have striven to produce its text correctly and completely according to the reliable manuscript sources that we have described in what has preceded—copies of the utmost value, trustworthy, dependable, and reassuring:

1. We compared the printed edition against the manuscript sources, taking the copy of al-Karūkhī as the base text, and we recorded the important variants. During the comparison, it became evident to us that a number of ḥadīths appeared in the printed edition but did not appear in