In the name of Allāh, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. There is no power nor strength except with Allāh, the Most High. Shaykh Abū al-Fatḥ Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Bāqī ibn Aḥmad ibn Sulaymān, known as Ibn al-Baṭī, informed us with permission, if I had not heard it from him. He said, Shaykh Abū al-Faḍl Aḥmad ibn al-Ḥasan ibn Khayrūn al-Muʿaddil informed us by reading to him while I was present and listening. It was said to him, "Did you read to Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Ṣūrī, the ḥāfiẓ?" He said, "I heard Abū