al-Shaykh Muṣṭafā Āfandī al-Shaṭṭī al-Ḥanbalī al-Atharī al-Dimashqī, a prominent student of al-Muḥaddith Badr al-Dīn al-Ḥasanī, wrote an attestation to ‘al-Dawlah al-Makkiyyah’ by al-Imām Aḥmad Riḍa Khān