ten volumes (1), the like of which no one else produced. He next authored the book al-Sunan wa al-Āthār in four volumes (2); the book al-Asmāʾ wa al-Ṣifāt in two volumes (3); the book al-Muʿtaqad, one volume; the book al-Baʿth, one volume; the book al-Targhīb wa al-Tarhīb, one volume; the book al-Daʿawāt, one volume; the book al-Zuhd, one volume; the book al-Khilāfiyyāt, three volumes; the book Nusus al-Shāfiʿī, two volumes; the book Dalāʾil al-Nubuwwah, four volumes (4); the book al-Sunan al-Ṣaghīr—a large single volume; the book Shuʿab al-Īmān, two volumes (5); the book al-Madkhal ilā al-Sunan, one volume; the book al-Ādāb, one volume; the book Faḍāʾil al-Awqāt, one volume; the book al-Arbaʿīn al-Kubrā, one volume; the book al-Arbaʿīn al-Ṣughrā; the book al-Ruʾyah, a single fascicle; the book al-Isrāʾ (6); the book Manāqib al-Shāfiʿī, a single volume (7); the book Manāqib Aḥmad, one volume; and the book Faḍāʾil
(1) Printed in India at the Nizamiya Dar al-Maʿarif Press, Hyderabad, 1344–1355 AH, in ten volumes, followed by al-Jawhar al-Naqi by the scholar ʿAlaʾ al-Din Ibn al-Turkumani (d. 745 AH).
(2) Also entitled Maʿrifat al-Sunan wa-l-Athar; its first volume was edited by Sayyid Ahmad Saqr and issued in Egypt by the Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs (Committee for the Revival of the Classics of the Sunnah).
(3) Printed in Hyderabad, India, 1333 AH in one volume, then reprinted in Cairo at the Saʿada Press, 1358 AH, with marginal notes by the eminent Shaykh Muhammad Zahid al-Kawthari.
(4) Several fascicles are kept in the Egyptian National Library; see the Catalogue of Photographed Manuscripts, vol. 2, part 1, pp. 133-134.
(5) A three-volume copy is preserved in the Ahmed III Library under MS no. 499 (Ḥadith); we possess a photographic copy. The work was abridged by several scholars, notably Imam Abu ʾl-Qasim ʿUmar ibn ʿAbd al-Rahman al-Qazwini al-Shafiʿi (d. 699 AH). His very concise epitome lists only the branches, providing for each one proof from the Quran and the Sunnah, and it has been published.
(6) His name appears in Subki’s Ṭabaqat as al-Asra, and in Hadiyat al-ʿArifin as al-Asrar.
(7) Published by Dar al-Turath, Cairo, 1971, in two volumes, edited by Sayyid Ahmad Saqr.