A question about a book the Shaykh had traced to its sources, and about the book *Fiqh al-Sunnah*.

The questioner : May Allah reward you. The book that you were kind enough to trace to its sources, and then the author of that book rejected this tracing. This tracing is not even with you, is it...? Perhaps you know the book I am referring to; it is in our hands and always...?

The Shaykh : No, I do not think you know it. This is something that has passed into history. You mean *Al-Halal wa al-Haram*?

The questioner : No, *Fiqh al-Sunnah*.

The Shaykh : No, no, I do not mean that. I mean a book titled: *The Voice of Nature Calls to the Greatness of Allah*. I do not think you have seen it, and perhaps you have not even heard its name!

The questioner : Well, Your Eminence,The Shaykh : we wanted to ask you about *Fiqh al-Sunnah*; what is your view of it?

The Shaykh : *Fiqh al-Sunnah*—may Allah bless you—I had published two parts of it, namely what I titled *Tammam al-Mannah fi Takhrij Fiqh al-Sunnah*. I published the first and second parts on the typewriter, not the ordinary one, and the third part is still with me in my handwriting. And whenever I am able to... I am serving this book. But the thing that may have reached you, which you have not verified, is that we had sent some of the brothers to Sayyid Sabiq so that they could agree with him to print the two books together; that is, *Fiqh al-Sunnah* on top and *Tammam al-Mannah* below. They delayed the matter, which means he refused to do so, and of course we have no authority over him; therefore, when we saw that, we tried to print a quantity, even if small, so that the brothers could obtain it, even if only within the limits of Syria, and so it was.

The questioner : For all the parts?

The Shaykh : No, just two parts, the first and the second. And the third, I said, is still with me as a manuscript in my handwriting!

The questioner : O Shaykh, we were supposed to ask general questions; you ask about these matters later.The Shaykh .