The benefit derived from it, and the use made of it. For it had been conveyed to him that I was resolved—after completing the critical edition and commentary of the Musnad of Ahmad, which has appeared in fifty volumes—to undertake the critical edition of the Jamiʿ of Abu ʿIsa al-Tirmidhi, which had not received in previous editions the full attention befitting it. This met with great approval from him, and with joy and satisfaction. He encouraged me in this out of his good opinion of me—and I ask Allah, glory be to Him, that I may live up to his good opinion and that He grant me every success in undertaking this work and giving it its due that befits it. So he sent me—may Allah preserve and protect him—three copies of the book, photographed from precious manuscript sources, among them the meticulously accurate copy that we have taken as the basis for the critical edition, which is in the handwriting of al-Karukhi, and we have already described it in what has preceded. He presented it to me as a pure gift—and how precious a gift it is—as a contribution from him to the publication of this precious volume, which its author described as: "Whoever has it in his house, it is as though a prophet were speaking in it," seeking abundant reward and great recompense from the Lord, glory be to Him. I ask Allah, the Exalted, to perpetuate his benefit, to multiply his reward, and to spread over him His protection in this world and the Hereafter.

And the last of our supplication is that all praise be to Allah, Lord of the worlds.

Amman, 2/12/1422 AH
14/2/2002 CE

Shuʿayb al-Arnaʾuṭ
Muhammad Kamil Qarah Balali