“…On making use of the q-exponential operator method, we [3] proved the following proposition (some misprints have been corrected here): Proposition 1. For max{|au|, |bu|, |cu|, |av|, |bv|, |cv|, |d/b|} < 1, we have: When d = abcuv in Proposition 1, upon noting that (1; q) k = δ 0,k , the 3 φ 2 series in the proposition reduces to 1 and thus the proposition becomes the Al-Salam-Verma formula, which is the q-integral representation of Sears' nonterminating extension of the q-Saalschütz summation [4], see also [5] (p. 52).…”