It is stated on the title page of the second volume that it is in the handwriting of the jurist and ḥadīth scholar Ibn Qudāma al-Maqdisī. As for the first volume, it appears that it was copied by more than one person, and Ibn Qudāma is mentioned among those who heard it [i.e., the work read aloud].

In the margins of this copy are certificates of audition (samāʿāt) from Ibn Qudāma in the Umayyad Mosque in the early seventh century AH, and these audition certificates recur every three folios.

At the end of each of the seventeen parts is a collection of audition certificates recorded in different hands, dated to widely separated times, from the sixth century (560 AH) through the eighth century.

Among them is an audition read by the ḥāfiẓ Ṣalāḥ al-Dīn al-ʿAlāʾī before the ḥāfiẓ Jamāl al-Dīn al-Mizzī and Abū Muḥammad al-Qāsim ibn Muẓaffar ibn ʿAsākir, the physician.

Among them also is an audition before the ḥāfiẓ al-Dhahabī.

All of these auditions took place in Damascus, in the Umayyad Mosque, in the Muẓaffarī Mosque, in the Ḍiyāʾiyya Madrasa, in the Madrasa of the Ṣāḥib Muḥyī al-Dīn Ibn al-Jawzī, in the Dār al-Ḥadīth al-Ashrafiyya, in the Sumaysāṭī Ribāṭ, in the Dār al-Qurʾān al-Jazariyya, in the Dār al-Ḥadīth al-Shuqayshīqiyya, in the Ṣadriyya Madrasa, and in the Nāṣiriyya Ribāṭ.

Here we briefly identify the mosques, madrasas, and ribāṭs in which Sunan Ibn Mājah was read, located in Damascus and its outskirts: