Introduction

Know – may God support you and us – that when I looked closely at the book of (the honored esteemed sayyid) al-Sayyid Jamāl al-Dīn Aḥmad b. Ṭāwūs about rijāl, I saw that it included what has been narrated from the books…

The honored Sayyid said: From the book of Abū al-Ḥusayn Aḥmad b. al-Ḥusayn b. ʿUbaydullāh al-Ghaḍā’irī, restricted to the mention of the weak (narrators), and he whose ḥadīth has been rejected from our companions, in…