Despite the many of your works in hadith, we do not know of a work by you on terminology, nor on some of the corrections and comments regarding the narrators.

The questioner : All right, O Shaykh (may Allah preserve you), despite the many of your works in hadith, we do not know of a work by you on terminology, nor—also—on some of the corrections in the discussion of the narrators; so I do not know what the reason for that is?

The Shaykh : He is directed toward a side of knowledge; is there anything strange about that?

The questioner : No, there is nothing strange about it.

The Shaykh: All right.

The questioner : But do you not see that it is appropriate that you record your comments, whether on the narrators or on the terminology?

The Shaykh : It is so; if there were free time, it would be so.

The questioner : I mean, is there no intention, O Shaykh?

The Shaykh : The intention is present in everything. For example, I had started on *Sahih al-Sirah*, so if you asked me: Why did you not complete this important work? I would say: Because I did this when I found free time, and I was exiled from the new house, the new residence in Amman, which I had settled in after Damascus. Then, when Allah permitted me to return, I returned to completing my previous projects. So if I found free time, I would have completed that project. If you ask me about the intention? I say: The intention is present, but the time is not available.