and in the book of al-Sunan from the "Muwaṭṭaʾ" of Mālik ibn Anas, there is something beneficial. Likewise, from the compilations of Ḥammād ibn Salamah and ʿAbd al-Razzāq. I do not think that a third of these books are in the books of all of them, meaning the compilations of Mālik ibn Anas, Ḥammād ibn Salamah, and ʿAbd al-Razzāq.

I have compiled it in the order it appeared to me, so if a sunnah is mentioned to you from the Prophet (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) that I have not included, know that it is a weak ḥadīth unless it is in my book from another route. For I did not include the routes because it would be too extensive for the learner, and I do not know anyone who has collected exhaustively other than myself. al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī al-Khallāl had compiled about nine hundred ḥadīths from it and mentioned that Ibn al-Mubārak said the sunan from the Prophet (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) are about nine hundred ḥadīths. He was told