My son Irani, son of Ajib, and after them Yasir. Rabia, daughter of the divine Qutb Abd al-Rahman ibn Jabir, came with her son, the jurist Sheikh al-Asr, and after them the sons of Abd al-Rahman, son of Hamd, from Dar al-Shafi'iyyah to al-Malaliyyah (1) during the time of King Wabat and Uthman, son of Ajib. I wanted to gather these dignitaries in a lexicon and mention the working scholars separately, and the Sheikhs of the Tariqa, and what their conduct and sayings indicate about their teaching of the unfamiliar, separately, and the scholars of the land.