(and in another narration: a foolish person) (1) speaks about the affairs of the public." I am not currently in the position to respond to him; he is too insignificant and contemptible for me to waste my time on that. However, I must here provide a few brief words, as much as possible, that align with this introduction. So I say: Firstly, the book is filled with fabrications and lies—as is his habit in everything he writes. Here is one example that suffices you from others. He said in his introduction (p. 4): "It is not hidden that the shaykh considers himself, as do those who are misled by him, to be unique in his era and unparalleled in his time, and that his words cannot be corrected, and that he has surpassed the predecessors in understanding the intricacies of ḥadīth and its additions and scrutinizing them..." and so on with his nonsense. I have nothing to say in response to this baseless slander except: ﴿Glory be to You, this is a great slander﴾ (2) and a clear sin, which can only come from someone who does not believe in the words of the Lord of the worlds: ﴿And whoever commits a sin or wrongs and then blames an innocent person, has indeed taken upon himself a slander and a manifest sin﴾ (3); for what is newly printed of my books, and what I clearly state in many of them, even in my introductions, completely eradicates his slander and strikes his ugly face, such as my statement in the introduction to the eighth edition of my book "Ṣaḥīḥ al-Kalim al-Ṭayyib" (p. 9):