What do you mean when you sometimes use certain numbers in some of your handwritten books?
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The questioner: O Shaykh, sometimes you use certain numbers in some of your handwritten books.
The Shaykh: The manuscript, and it is the same.
The questioner: In the past, you used to refer to Abu Dawud before the publication of Sahih Abu Dawud.
The Shaykh: Please, it is so that the manuscript is not confused with the printed edition. Generally, manuscripts number the leaves, not the pages. They number the leaves, not the pages. So in this case, if one says, for example, Qaf 5, side 1, it means the first side, or Qaf 5, side 2, it means the second side. Because they number the leaves, and each leaf has two pages: one, two, one, two, and so on.
The questioner: Is Ibn Asakir a manuscript?
The Shaykh: Yes, indeed.
The questioner: Ibn Asakir.
The Shaykh: The Ibn Asakir I used to quote from in the past is the manuscript. Now I have made a copy from the al-Zahiriyyah Library and numbered its pages with the typewriter. The pages, not the leaves. So now, if we quote from it, we quote from the pages, not the leaves.
The questioner: O Shaykh, you worked a lot on these volumes.
The Shaykh: It must be 19 volumes, each volume containing 800 leaves, 800 leaves.
The questioner: O Shaykh, if you could give us a brief account of your efforts at the al-Zahiriyyah Library.
The Shaykh: Please, please, everything.
The questioner: A minute, because as one person said: "Shaykh Nasser would sit for a long hour."
The Shaykh: On the stairs.
The questioner: On the stairs, and the food would get cold.
The Shaykh: On the stairs. This is an apology, this is a long story, and now, if I may use the expression, it is like cutting watermelons.
The questioner : ...
The Shaykh: Later, attend the next session. Everyone, my brother.
The questioner: May Allah reward you with good. May Allah reward you with good.
The Shaykh: Glory be to You, O Allah, with Your praise.
The Shaykh: The manuscript, and it is the same.
The questioner: In the past, you used to refer to Abu Dawud before the publication of Sahih Abu Dawud.
The Shaykh: Please, it is so that the manuscript is not confused with the printed edition. Generally, manuscripts number the leaves, not the pages. They number the leaves, not the pages. So in this case, if one says, for example, Qaf 5, side 1, it means the first side, or Qaf 5, side 2, it means the second side. Because they number the leaves, and each leaf has two pages: one, two, one, two, and so on.
The questioner: Is Ibn Asakir a manuscript?
The Shaykh: Yes, indeed.
The questioner: Ibn Asakir.
The Shaykh: The Ibn Asakir I used to quote from in the past is the manuscript. Now I have made a copy from the al-Zahiriyyah Library and numbered its pages with the typewriter. The pages, not the leaves. So now, if we quote from it, we quote from the pages, not the leaves.
The questioner: O Shaykh, you worked a lot on these volumes.
The Shaykh: It must be 19 volumes, each volume containing 800 leaves, 800 leaves.
The questioner: O Shaykh, if you could give us a brief account of your efforts at the al-Zahiriyyah Library.
The Shaykh: Please, please, everything.
The questioner: A minute, because as one person said: "Shaykh Nasser would sit for a long hour."
The Shaykh: On the stairs.
The questioner: On the stairs, and the food would get cold.
The Shaykh: On the stairs. This is an apology, this is a long story, and now, if I may use the expression, it is like cutting watermelons.
The questioner : ...
The Shaykh: Later, attend the next session. Everyone, my brother.
The questioner: May Allah reward you with good. May Allah reward you with good.
The Shaykh: Glory be to You, O Allah, with Your praise.
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