Translation of: Badhl al-måa°åun fåi faòdl al-òtåa°åun; "In general, we relied on Aòhmad °Iòsåam °Abd al-Qåadir al-Kåatib's 1991 Arabic edition of this text. Al-Kåatib consulted several early manuscript versions of the text at libraries in Aleppo, Damascus, and Istanbul--including one from the Sulaymaniyah library that was dated to the summer of 1448, just months before Ibn òHajar's death."--Galley.
