the needy one before Allah the Exalted, Sheikh Muhammad ibn 'Ali ibn 'Abd al-'Aziz al-Harrani, for all the Muslims, and he designated its location to be the library of the Diya'iyyah Madrasa at the foot of Mount Qasioun, and [assigned] the oversight of it for the duration of his life, and after him to the overseer of the mentioned library, whosoever [it may be], may Allah accept from him and reward him." At the end, it states: "The first volume was completed with the praise of Allah and His grace on Sunday, in the last ten days of Rabi' al-Akhir, in the year 690 AH, by the hand of the needy one for the pardon and mercy of Allah, Isma'il ibn Muhammad ibn Isma'il al-Harrani, may Allah forgive him, his parents, and all Muslims. May Allah bless our master Muhammad, the unlettered Prophet, and his family, companions, and those who followed them in righteousness until the Day of Judgment." The copy is written in Naskhi script, consists of 278 folios, and has 24 lines per page. Upon examination, it became clear that it contains only fifteen folios of al-Mughni, in a disorganized order. Following that is another book on jurisprudence which differs from al-Mughni. The beginning of what is present [in that section] is before the chapter on the Nullifiers of Ablution, and the start of the chapter on the Nullifiers of Purification is: "The nullifiers of purification are ten things; one of them is the exit of any thing that exits from the two passages..." It ends in the chapter on the rulings of Umm al-Walad (mothers of children) [with]: "...it is incumbent upon her to observe the waiting period after the death of the other of the two, by the longer of four months and ten days, or the acquittal through one menstrual cycle, and she has no inheritance from the husband. And Allah knows best."

2 - The second part of another copy on which is written: "The second volume of al-Mughni in jurisprudence according to the school of the revered Imam Abu 'Abd Allah Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Hanbal, may Allah be pleased with him and grant him satisfaction, amen. Authored by the Imam, the learned scholar, the authority... Muwaffaq al-Din Abu Muhammad 'Abd Allah ibn Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Qudama al-Maqdisi, may Allah sanctify his soul and illuminate his grave... Paradise by His mercy, amen." Then: "This book is endowed, and it is the second of the book al-Mughni, and what is before it and after it, totaling eight complete parts. The writer of these characters is Muhammad ibn 'Uthman ibn Muhammad al-Hanbali, may Allah forgive him, for all the Muslims of the Ahl al-Sunnah wal-Jama'ah, that they may benefit from it in various ways... and for study and review, a valid, binding, and legal endowment, not to be sold, not to be gifted, not to be inherited, and not to be taken out to... And it is a condition of it that it not be lent to one who is feared...