the masters of the staffs in all regions, recognized his merit, and whoever was among the people of stubbornness and innovation was distinguished by his rage; and likewise the masters, his disciples and his children after him, surpassed the group of the people of their era in virtues, praises, merits, rarities, wonders, and noble traits; and how excellent is the saying of the speaker:

The beauty of this earth they were

In life and in his presence

And they are after death

The beauty of books and biographies

And I ask Allah, the Eternal, the Ancient, by His Name and His Mighty, Wise Veil, to make us among those who followed and not among those who innovated, and to extend to us aid and success, and inspire us with comprehension, and protect us from misguidance and seduction by His grace, His power, His favor, and His generosity; indeed, He is Generous, Bestowing. And that He makes what we have placed, codified, revealed, explained, and cited in this book of ours famous and spread among the Monotheist believers, preserved and veiled from all the deniers and rejecters,