Many recent studies that examine ḥadīth commentaries with different questions reveal that commentaries are a more original activity than one might think. Especially the studies that go beyond the content of the commentaries and focus on the relationship between the commentary and the scholar, the patronage of the commentaries, their readership, etc. are very successful steps. One of the recent studies that aim to “scrutinize the commentaries from a different perspective” by going beyond the common outline is Sezai Engin’s Tracing the Commentary and the Commentator: The Story of Ḥadīth Commentaries. The subject of this article is Engin’s latest work on the story of ḥadīth commentaries.