I am so delighted that he has never found fault with any of the book’s topics...

I am so delighted that he has never found fault with any of the book’s topics, which being numerous and critical, the likes of which were never published in any all-inclusive book. And also for his calling what he noticed only slips, with expressly saying: “He is not to blame for the slips, to some of which I have referred, since those who are exonerated of defect or deficiency or slips being rarely found nowadays.” May God preserve him.

Mahmud Abu Riyyah This foreword was published in al-Jumhuriyyah newspaper, in the issue of Tuesday 25 November 1958. The book al-Shaykhan, pp. 256, 257. Previous…