To preserve the book from printing errors that lead to rapid deterioration and numerous transcription mistakes, as I have witnessed from comparing various copies. In the copy intended for printing, which I wrote myself, I relied on the copies available from: Khalifa Sheikh Khujali, Khalifa Muhi al-Din bin Khalifa al-Amin. The copy of Sheikh Ahmed al-Badawi Muhammad al-Dawli al-Kordofani. The esteemed scholar, the blessed al-Qadoura Khalifa Hasab al-Rasul, printed by Khardoun, and now the agent of the Sudan Intelligence Department. I found it with the most excellent official, Sulaiman Effendi Dawood Mandil al-Asami, owner of the printing press in Khartoum. And on the copy of the Omda of Tuti, Sheikh Ibrahim Ali Bar, owner of the "Al-Ikhtilaq al-Kar'a al-Marsiya." And on the copy of the late Al-Tayyib al-Dukr, our friend Sheikh Ahmed Issa Wadad, from the people of the town of Madani. Among these copies, some are said to have been transcribed from the "Al-Biryab" copy, which is considered more authoritative than others, as I heard from those who heard from the author, "Qasabat al-'Uthmaniyya al-Muluk." I was keen to obtain it from its people who were in Al-Sa'id, near the center of Haj Abdullah, and the earliest of its copies is mine. But alas, Sheikh Muhammad bin Sheikh al-Amin al-Mushir informed me that it was lost during the lifetime of its owner, the late الفقيه Muhammad Wali, a student of his father, as he heard from him. There is a "Biryab" in the lower part of Jazirat Nusri, and some people say the copy is with them. However, through repeated inquiry and research, I confirmed that the "Talaba" (1) are with the "Biryab of Al-Sa'id" who came, and it was lost from them. The printing of these editions in their current state does not prevent their supplementation with additional material if a more complete copy is found, which is my strong belief for a second printing. I do not think there is a copy that surpasses this one, even if the author's grandson claims so, because my copy is a distillation of many copies, including one transcribed from the "Al-Biryab" copy, which is the core of the matter for the grandson. I took over a year to write, correct, compare, and further correct my copy. I endured hardships in obtaining the copies, and to God is the good reward. I left the editions as the author originally wrote them, in the common style, as he had a purpose for that, and to preserve the old as it was, so that the desired image could be taken from it for the people of his generation. The author, despite his errors, was knowledgeable, and the introduction to his writing indicates that he spent a long time writing and in Arabic grammar. And when I found it in the copy of "Tabaqat Sheikh Ahmed al-Badawi," mentioned earlier, in his handwriting, concerning (1) "Al-Talaba" with a kasra on the taa. the intensified, meaning the desired need.