15 - those who said: If it were not for the people of ḥadīth, Islam would be forgotten. 16 - the status of the people of ḥadīth as the most deserving of salvation in the Hereafter and the first of creation to enter Paradise 17 - the combination of worldly and otherworldly righteousness in hearing and recording ḥadīth. 18 - the established proof of the person of ḥadīth. 19 - using the love of the people of ḥadīth as evidence for the people of the sunnah. 20 - using the dislike of ḥadīth and its people as evidence against the innovators. 21 - those who combined praise for the people of ḥadīth with criticism of the people of opinion and vile speech. 22 - those who said: Seeking ḥadīth is among the best acts of worship. 23 - those who said: Narrating ḥadīth is better than glorification. 24 - those who said: Teaching ḥadīth is better than supererogatory prayer. 25 - those who wished for the narration of ḥadīth from the caliphs and saw that the narrators are the best scholars. These are the most important chapters and sections of the book. I ask Allāh, the Exalted, to facilitate for it someone from the supporters of ḥadīth and its people to publish it, so that someone like me may refer those who wish to know the details of what is mentioned in these wonderful sections of ḥadīths and reports from the eminent imams! I conclude this statement with a great testimony for the people of ḥadīth from a prominent scholar of the Ḥanafī school in India, namely Abū al-Ḥasanāt Muḥammad ʿAbd al-Ḥayy al-Lakhnawī (1264 - 1304). He said, may Allāh have mercy on him: "Whoever looks with fairness and dives into the seas of jurisprudence and principles, avoiding bias, will know with certain knowledge that in most of the subsidiary and fundamental issues in which scholars have differed, the position of the muḥaddithīn is stronger than that of others, and whenever I traverse the paths of disagreement, I find