لَمْ نَرَ كُلَّ مَا أَرَدْنَا رَصْدَهُ، وَلَكِنَّا سَجَّلْنَا مَا ظَهَرَ لَنَا، وَلَمْ نُضِفْ إِلَيْهِ مَا لَمْ نَرَهُ. وَصِدْقُ الْمُلَاحَظَةِ أَوْلَى مِنْ كَثْرَةِ الدَّعَاوَى.
We did not see everything we hoped to observe, but we recorded what appeared to us and did not add things we had not seen. Honest observation matters more than abundant claims.
The opening shows negation of complete coverage; lākinna contrasts incomplete coverage with the actual work accomplished; lam nuḍif rules out fictitious additions; and the concluding maxim can function as a generalizing tadhyīl.
A sound analysis considers the actual claim, known and unknown facts, clause relations, evidence for ellipsis, and the purpose of each addition. More emphasis does not prove more truth: effective rhetoric communicates the established claim at exactly its justified scope.