All praise is due to Allāh, Lord of the worlds, and may blessings be upon our master Muḥammad, his family, and all his companions. Our master and lord, the humble servant in need of Allāh, the exalted, the learned, the investigating scholar, the muftī, the foremost of teachers, the tongue of the speakers, the proof for the observers, the suppressor of innovators, the preserver of the era, the servant of the sunnah of the master of the messengers, Jalāl al-Dīn al-Suyūṭī al-Shāfiʿī, may Allāh extend his life and have mercy on his predecessors, teachers, and all Muslims, said: Mentioning the names of the dog: The dog is well-known, and the female is called a bitch. Its plural forms are aklib, kilāb, kulayb, akālib, and kilābāt, and its collective plural is kilbāt. One day, Abū al-ʿAlāʾ al-Maʿarrī entered upon al-Sharīf al-Murtaḍá and stumbled over a man. The man said, "Who is this dog?" Abū al-ʿAlāʾ replied, "The dog is the one who does not know seventy names for the dog." I said: I have followed the books of language and compiled more than sixty names, and I have organized them in a poem titled "Disavowing the Offense of al-Maʿarrī," which is as follows: Praise be to Allāh, the eternal protector, and then His blessings upon the Prophet. Trustworthy narrators have reported from Abū al-ʿAlāʾ that when he came to al-Murtaḍá and entered, a person who stumbled over him said, "Who is this dog that he did not see?" In response, he said clearly, expressing to the ignorant one, "The dog is the one who does not know seventy of its names," alluding to its nobility. I have pursued the lexicons, hoping to gather its extent, and I have come with a large number, hoping for ease in what remains. I have organized that in this poem so that those who are unable to benefit from it may do so. Name it, guided, "Disavowing the Offense of al-Maʿarrī," O companion. Among them are al-bāqiʿ, then al-wāziʿ, the dog, al-abqaʿ, then al-zāriʿ, al-khiṭal, al-sukhām, then al-asad, al-ʿurbuja, the old one, then al-aʿqad, al-aʿnaq, al-darbās, al-ʿamalas, al-quṭrub, al-furnī, then al-falḥas, al-thagham, al-ṭalaq with al-ʿawāʾ, with lengthening and shortening equally. Counted among its names is al-baṣīr, and in it is a riddle said by an expert. The Arabs have called it in the past in the battle, the caller of conscience, then the pleasant conscience. Thus they called it the caller of generosity, the one who praises, the one who completes blessings, and Thamtham, Kalb, Hablāʿ, Mundhir, Hajrāʿ, and Hajrāʿ. Then Kusayb, a known name for the male, derived from the hamzah and lām, and al-qalaṭī, al-salūqī as a lineage, likewise al-ṣīnī, similar to that. Al-mustatīr, the agitated of dogs, as narrated by the author of al-ʿUbāb, al-darṣ, and al-jarū, the triply dotted fāʾ, for the offspring of the dog are names found. Al-samʿ, as stated by al-Ṣūlī, who is Abū Khālid, the nickname, and they transmitted al-ruhḍūn for the dogs, and a female dog is called Kasāb, like Quṭām, a known name, and Kasbah, similarly transmitted. Take for it al-ʿawlaq and al-muʿāwiyah, and Laʿwah, and be its narrator. The offspring of the dog from a she-wolf is called ʿUsbūrah, and if you remove the condition, you will find it. They added to that al-khayhafʿā, and if it is lengthened, it is heard. The offspring of the dog from a wolf is named, or a fox, as they narrated, al-dīsam. Then water dogs are called al-harakilah, and measure individually what resembles it. Likewise, the water dog is called al-qundus, as Ibn Dihyah has emulated. The female water dog is al-qaḍāʿah; all of that they have confirmed by hearing. They enumerated from its kind Ibn Āwā, and whoever named it Daʾal has equaled, and Duʾil, Duʾul, and al-Dhuʾlān, open and close the dictionary for al-Dhuʾlān. Likewise, al-ʿilwaḍ, then al-nawfal, and al-laʿwaḍ, al-sarḥūb as they transmitted, and al-waʿ, al-ʿalūsh, then al-waʿwaʿ, al-shaghabar, al-waʾwāʾ as heard. This is what I have gathered from books, and what appeared after that I have added. All praise is due to Allāh, here is the completion, and then peace be upon His Prophet.