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This serves to authenticate that copy of the book.
Manuscripts of Islamic books generally also state the chain through which that particular copy was passed on. The name of this student could be Abul Badr, Ibrahim ibn Muhammad Al-Karkhi (rahimahullah) – as appears in the footnotes of Shaykh Muhammad ‘Awwamah’s copy of Sunan Abi Dawud, before Hadith: 1.
These are the words of the student of Imam Abu Bakr, Khatib Baghdadi who transmits this version of the Sunan from him all the way up to Imam Abu Dawud (rahimahumullah). At the beginning of Abu Dawud Sharif, before Kitabut Taharah in the Pakistani print, the following appears: