Author name: Dr. Abdul Rahman bin Hassan Qaed Number of pages: 202 Book size: 17 x 24 Publishing house: Horizons of Knowledge Selected and added to by Ahmed bin Aybak Al-Husami Ibn Al-Damiyati Study and investigation by Dr. Abdul Rahman Qaid, a new golden work published for the first time from the works of Imam al-Hafiz, the historian Shams al-Din Abi Abdullah Muhammad bin Ahmed bin Othman al-Dhahabi, who died in the year 748, in which he collected a group of what was mentioned in the virtues of countries from hadiths and monuments, embellished with his decisive rulings, his superior expressions, and his brilliant comments, It was selected from his handwriting by the hadith scholar Ahmad ibn Aybak al-Hasami, known as Ibn al-Dumayati, who died in the year 749 AH. He added useful additions to it in its chapter, which I obtained from a unique copy in the handwriting of Ibn al-Dumyati, and presented to him a brief, useful study of the books of the virtues of countries, the implications of their hadiths, leniency in their narration, and many reasons. The situation in it, and the fact that places and regions are preferred, and people’s sects regarding it, then I introduced the book, documenting its attribution to its author, explaining its approach, translating its copyist and narrator, and describing the written original that I relied on in publishing it.
